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Patrick Geddes was a Scottish planner, biologist, and educator renowned for his comprehensive approach to urban planning and profound insights into urban development. His work emphasized the harmonious coexistence of cities with their natural environments and the impact of urban design on human well-being.

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“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time”

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“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”

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“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live.”

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“But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.”

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“Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.”

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“Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.”

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“Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.”

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About the Author

Born: October 2, 1854
Died: April 17, 1932
Known for: Planner
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