Patrick Geddes

• 1. Introduction 2. The Formative Years: A Biologist's Viewpoint 3. Practical Experiments in Social Evolution 4. Museums, Actual and Possible 5. Maverick in the Social Sciences 6. The Sociologists of the Town Planning Movement 7. The Challenge of India and Palestine 8. Social Reconstruction in India and Palestine 9. Regional Survey in the International Context: The Legacy of Geddes

`This is a very persuasive and honest book without any superficial dazzle.' - Iain Crichton Smith, Glasgow Herald`... This most detailed study gives a fascinating insight into the life and work of a notable `maverick of the social sciences' and it deserves to be widely read.' - English Historical Review