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1 “Angling for Cities!” 6
The Scientist of Life 9
The Economics of Nature 13
The Economics of Cities 16
The Order of Cities 17
The Revolt against Reason 19
Toward a Larger Modernism 22
2 Patrick Geddes’s Theory of the City 26
Victorian Britain and Historical Models 28
The Notation of Life 31
From Individual to Communal Psychology 40
Geddes’s Theory of the City: A Platonic Reading 46
3 The City and Geography 54
Town and Country 55
The Valley Section 60
Edinburgh and Its Region: A Northern Athens and Its Polis 66
The Region-City: A Step toward Conurbations and the World City 70
Regional and Universal 76
The Outlook Tower 78
4 The City in History 82
The City in Nineteenth-Century Thought 84
Geddes’s View of History: The Arbor Saeculorum 88
Organicism and Morphology 92
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition 99
Some Problems, Regional and Historical 103
5 History in the City 106
Reading History from the City 108
The Genius Loci 112
Conservative Surgery 116
The Rebuilding of Crosby Hall 120
Exhibitions for Learning 124
Recapitulation and Recollection 131
6 The Metaphysical Imperative in Urban Design around 1900 136
Building the Ideal Community 138
Temple Ideas around 1900 145
Temples of Art and Culture 159
Temples of the City 168
7 The City and Spirituality 174
The Temple of Geography 176
Biological Views of the City: Eugenic and Metabolic 187
The Temple of the Greek Gods: A Temple of Life 192
The Garden for the Nine Greek Muses: Life in Action 197
The Temple as the Union between Science and Religion 200
A Hall of Vision 206
8 From the Temple of the City to the Cultural Acropolis 214
The Temple of the City 215
Celebrating the City 221
The Cultural Acropolis 232
The City Crown 244
Epilogue 250
Appendix: Synoptic Overview of Geddes’s Life and Time 256
Notes 268
Bibliography 314
Illustration Credits 342
Index 346
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