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Presented at the New School for Social Research, New York City. Relating to city and regional planning, including discussion of the following: history, education, geology, regionalism, Zionist planning schemes in Palestine, wheat and rice-based agriculture; the Outlook Tower, Edinburgh; regional survey; valley section diagram and its various types of occupations; city development. Mention of [Frédéric] Le Play, Frazer's Golden Bough. Typescript with some manuscript amendments.

Thanking Tyrwhitt for her letter advising of the availability of Geddes material at Harvard, and arranging a meeting to view the documents. Manuscript. 1 document. 20 April 1959.
Attached note: Pierre Clavel to Prof. [Jaqueline] Tyrwhitt. Listing items he has taken. Manuscript. 1 document. 4 May 1959.

Regarding amendments and additions to a [bibliography] which Mumford has been compiling. Mention of: Patrick Geddes; Gooch; J.M. Robertson; Farquharson, Ruskin and his St. George's Guild; August Comte; J.J. Findlay; Herbert Spencer; F.S. Marvin; R.M. Maciver; Harriet Martineau; the Masques of Learning; [Eliseé Reclus]; [Halford John] Mackinder; H.J. Fleure; J.W. Slaughter; Amelia Defries; Jane Harrison; [William Richard] Lethaby; C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee; Sir W.H. Hadow; Brother Lawrence; Richard Rolle; Walter Hinton; AE [George William Russell]; George Meredith; Rachel Annand Taylor ['Banabhard']; Michael Foster; Claude Bernard; and A. H. Gibson.

Branford's descriptions of a visit to Rome, especially the new University City (Citta Universitaria) in Rome and the possibility of establishing a Sociological Institute there. Also mention of a new fruit and vegetable market; an agricultural co-operative bank; a working class quarter in the style of a garden-city; textile factories; the transformation of a street into an incipient 'Rue des Nations'; the Pincian gardens; Villa Medici; Ludovisi Quarter; International Institute of Agriculture; Mussolini; fascism in Italy; St. Peter's cathedral. Branford plans to use these observations in a lecture on 'Incipient Rome and its Region'. He suggests a town planning exhibition in Rome would be a modest beginning to 'a sociological mission to the Fascists'. Typescript with manuscript annotations.
La Colline, Territet, Switzerland.

Typescript.

Includes a 1913 line drawing by [Frank Charles Mears] of Edinburgh Castle and environs.

Endorsed: '1914' and 'J. Tyrwhitt'.

Notes about Patrick Geddes' work. Sections are entitled: 'The Valley Section as a Framework for Study'; 'Competition or Cooperation'; 'The Region, the Town, the City'; 'The Valley Section as a Basis for Social Action'. Typescript..

Athens Technological Organization - Athens Center of Ekistics. No. S-ACE 201 : 873. Compares three grids by Geddes, Le Corbusier and Doxiadis. 4 pp. 27 October 1969. Attached: three diagrams, entitled 'Patrick Geddes Diagram', The Ekistic Grid' and The Ciam Grid'. [See also T-TYR 1/17/1 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/sheet-endorsed-part-i-relating-to-publication-of-book-by-jaqueline-tyrwhitt-about-patrick-geddes%3bisad]].

London County Council. St. George's Library, Cable Street, E.

Reprinted from The Scottish Geographical Magazine, pp. 525-536. October 1902.

Endorsed: '1902' and 'J. Tyrwhitt'.

From 'The Valley Plan of Civilization' by Patrick Geddes.