100 years of Cities in Evolution
Published on Thu 23 Apr 2015
Marking the centenary of the publication of Geddes, Cities in Evolution Exhibition & Workshops
The Scottish polymathic planner and botanist, Patrick Geddes, was able to articulate conceptual frameworks for the evolution of cities – what he called ‘thinking machines’ – and create resilient narratives for understanding the dialogues between the on-going processes of city evolution and democratic social organisation. This program of research workshops culminating in a symposium and public exhibition of work drawn from the Geddes archives, evaluates the relevance of Geddes to contemporary thinking on cities and their regions. It is timed to mark the centenary of Geddes' most comprehensive work, Cities in Evolution (1915). It is part of a larger project to re-evaluate key contributions to urban thought from the 20th Century – from Geddes to the recent architectural avant-garde - and re-integrate it into contemporary urban thought.