Minutes and papers of the Town Planning Institute and other bodies; papers relating to Singapore and other Commonwealth work; papers relating to international work; papers relating to town planning education; correspondence; press cuttings; photographs; maps and plans.

Notes; correspondence; lecture notes; published books and pamphlets; diagrams and glass slides. Many of the items are by or related to Patrick Geddes.

Collection of around 500 items relating to new towns in Britain and internationally. The material mostly dates from the 1920s until the present and includes reports, town plans and planning proposals, and maps. The collection also includes archival material relating to new towns in Scotland, with particular emphasis on Livingston.

This section comprises the following series:

1. Town planning

2. Economics

3. Sociology and Civics

4. Art

5. Architecture

6. Philosophy

7. Religion

8. Education

9. Geography

10. Science

11. Astronomy

12. World Current Affairs and Politics

13. Literature/Journalism

14. Maps and Guide Books

15. Miscellanea

The collection covers most periods of Geddes’s life, and nearly all of the places in which he lived and worked. It comprises correspondence, notes, pamphlets and books, photographs, maps, plans, prints and drawings, including Geddes' famous 'thinking machines'.

This section comprises the following series:

1. Cities in Evolution
2. City Development
3. City Development (continued)
4. Regions and Cities
5. Cities and Regional Surveys
6. Cities and Regional Surveys (continued)
7. India
8. Cyprus
9. Palestine
10. Ireland

Includes some records of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, the predecessor of the Department of Environmental Planning.