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Encloses the following:

Memorandum: J. Tyrwhitt to ACE Students on 'The Ekistic Grid in Context'. Athens Technological Organisation - Athens Centre of Ekistics. No. S-ACE 201 : 1250. 8 December 1971. Mention of the Ekistic Grid in town planning, developed by C.A. Doxiadis; the CIAM grid invented by Le Corbusier; Geddes Place-Work-Folk 'thinking machines'. [See also T-TYR 1/19 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/memorandum-ekistic-grid-in-context-by-j-aqueline-tyrwhitt;isad]].

Copy letter: J[aqueline] Tyrwhitt to George Brasiller.
Regarding the publication of a book about Patrick Geddes. Outlines Tyrwhitt's understanding of Geddes' contribution to town planning. Suggests that Dr. Helen Meller write an historical introduction. Mention of Geddes' Dunfermline report; Professor George Collins; Mr. [ ] Green; Professor [ ] Dix. 3 pp. 24 September 1971. 2 copies

Photocopy of article: 'The Ekistic Grid' by Jacqueline [sic: the 'c' in Jacqueline has been crossed out] Tyrwhitt. Arena: Architecture Association Journal], pp. 10-15. Presented at the AA on 10 June 1965.

Photocopy of draft paper on sociology by Patrick Geddes. Typescript with manuscript annotations. 27 pp. No date. [Possibly in Sociological Review, January 1924]. Attached: 2 pp. of manuscript thought diagrams by [Patrick Geddes]. 1 p. of manuscript notes by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt] relating to the paper and the possibility of using the diagrams [possibly in a publication].

Topics include: history, literature, philosophers and librarians, mythology, subjective-synthetic, synthetics and synergies, classification of the sciences.
Manuscript.

Read before the Sociological Society, School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 18 July [1904]. Reprinted from unidentified journal, pp. 103-120.

Includes:
'Written Communications' from [ ] Baldwin Brown, Walter Crane, J.H. Harley,
T.C. Horsfall, H. Osman Newland, G. Bisset-Smith, W.I. Thomas, pp. 130-136. 'Professor Geddes' Reply', pp. 136-138.
'Press Comments' from The Times, J.H. Bridges in The Positivist Review and Israel Zangwill in To-Day. pp. 143-144.

Volumes and numbers unknown.

Notes on botany, Scottish history, sociology, city planning and Ireland.
Typescript.

Enclosed: photocopy of 'City Development' by Patrick Geddes, pp. 213-226. Attached: 1 p. typescript notes by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt].

Enclosing paper: 'Patrick Geddes' "University of Central India"' edited by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. For a meeting on Education in Ekistics at the Athens Technological Organization - Athens Centre of Ekistics. Document B. No. 3. Typescript.

'Notes on Patrick Geddes' by [Gerhard Roenberg]. Annotated list of books by and about Geddes and other contemporaries owned by Miss Mary Geddes, Patrick Geddes' niece in Auckland, New Zealand. Manuscript endorsement relates to a visit to the recipient's visit to Australia and the possibility of a meeting.

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.