Sir Patrick Geddes was a biologist, sociologist and town planner with a strong interest in education, the arts, history and many other subjects. He believed strongly in the inter-relationships between all branches of knowledge.
Geddes grew up and was educated in Scotland, and studied biology in London. After a professional career as a biologist in London and France, he settled in the late 1880s in Edinburgh, where he became involved in the regeneration of the Old Town. He was particularly involved in the Ramsay Garden complex of private housing, student hall of residence and artists' studios, and in the Outlook Tower. In 1889, Geddes became Professor of Botany at Dundee University College, where he was required to be present for only three months of the year. This gave him the opportunity to pursue many other interests. In the ensuing decades, Geddes developed a highly individualistic theory of human societies and their spatial manifestation in the city and in the country, drawing upon theories in biology, geography, philosophy and politics. In 1904, Geddes published his first major report, City development: a study of parks, gardens and culture institutes, which enhanced his reputation among architects and planners. After 1900, Geddes's activities centred on London, where he co-founded the Sociological Society in 1903 and showed his Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in 1911. From 1914-1924, Geddes lived mainly in India, where he was involved in town planning. He accepted the Chair of Sociology and Civics at the University of Bombay in 1919. At this period, Geddes designed the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, garden suburbs for Jerusalem and Haifa, settlements elsewhere in Palestine, and the master plan for Tel Aviv. After his return to Europe in 1924, Geddes settled in Montpellier, France, where he founded the Scots College as an International University to propagate his ideas. He was knighted in 1932 and died at Montpellier.
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Illustrations and photographs of individual towns, cities and regions in Switzerland.
This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.
For other series in Geddes' topographical collection, follow the link to 'Topography' below.
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'Badense oppidum vulgo Ober Badenn'
Copy of a sixteenth or seventeenth century city view.
Anon.
'Cities Exhibition No. 217 lent by Architects' War Committee [AWC crossed out]'
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'Veduta della Citta di Bassilea nella Squicera'
Title repeated in German and French.
'Prospect von Basel' endorsed in top margin [reverted lettering]
'Augsburg by los. Carmine'
Johannes Carmine.
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'Passaggio del Monte S. Bernardo Fatto Dall' Armata Francese'
'Vernet dis.'
'Antonio Perlio incise'
'[ ] Mag 1800'
Antonio Perlio after [ ] Vernet.
Traces of former restoration.
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'Portail de la Cathédrale de Berne.'
'Bachmann del. et lith.'
'Paris, publié par A. Hauser, boul. des ltaliens, 11.'
'Imp. Lemercier à Paris'
'Le Moyen-Age Monumental et Archéologique Allemagne. Archit. Ogivale. Xve. Siècle' endorsed in top margin.
'A.B.' relief stamp in bottom margin.
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'Vue D'Une Partie De La Ville De Fribourg Et De La Maison Des Jesuites'
'Perignon delineavit'
'Masquelier direxit'
[ ] Masquelier after [ ] Perignon.
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Two reproductions of photographs of traditional buildings in Fribourg.
'Lichtdruck [ ... ] Martin Rommel & Co., Stuttgart'
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From 'Rudolf Hinderer. Alte Schweizer Bauweisen'.
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'12' endorsed in top right corner.
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'7.' endorsed in top right corner.
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'Geneva'
Perspective view of lake Geneva.
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Title in manuscript in pencil in bottom margin.
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'Monument de Brunswick a Geneve'
'A. Garcin, phot. Genève'
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'Vue De La Cascade De Lauterbrunn, dans le Baillage d'lnterlachen, Canton de Berne.'
'Dessiné par le Barbier L'Aine'
'[ ] [ ]asquellier'
[ ]asquellier after Barbier L'Aine.
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'Lucerne'
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Title labelled in bottom right corner.
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'Lugano'
Reproduction of a photograph showing the silhouette of a villa at a lakeside.
Anon.
Title in manuscript in crayon in bottom left corner.
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'Panorama de Montreux et le Lac Léman'
'J J. 5374.'
'Julien Frères, Phot.-Editeurs, Genève'
J. J. [monogram].
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'Sitten'
'Sedununc primaria et Metropolitica Valesiae urbs, Germanorum et Gallorum frequentatione celebris'
Copy of a 16th century city view.
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'No. 218' [Cities Exhibition] endorsed in manuscript in pencil in bottom left corner.
[Cities Exhibition.]
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'Solothurn - Soleure.'
Reproduction of a photograph of a traditional building at Solothurn.
Anon.
'Lichtdruck [ ... ] Martin Rommel & Co. Stuttgart'
From 'Rudolf Hinderer. Alte Schweizer Bauweisen'.
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'Roches Polies Des Bords Du Glacier de Zermatt.'
'd'apres nat. et lith. par Bettannier.'
'lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel'
Hercule Nicolet after [ ] Bettannier.
'8.' endorsed in top margin.
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'Zurich'
View of Zurich, River Limmot, and Lake Zurich.
Anon.
Title in manuscript in pencil on the reverse.
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