Patrick Geddes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Patrick Geddes

British scientist and town planner

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1854

Place of Birth: Ballater, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1932

Profession: urban planner, sociologist, botanist, philosopher, ecologist, scientific illustrator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner.
He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology. He introduced the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and coined the term "conurbation".
Later, he elaborated ‘neotechnics’ as the way of remaking a world apart from over-commercialization and money dominance.An energetic Francophile, Geddes was the founder in 1924 of the Collège des Écossais (Scots College), an international teaching establishment in Montpellier, France and in the 1920s he bought the Château d'Assas to set up a centre for urban studies.