Table of Contents

Introduction: Interpreting Patrick Geddes, a Contemporaneous Task Part 1: The Planning Historiography of Patrick Geddes 1. The Town Planner as a Miracle Worker, 1854-1932 2. 1940s-1960s: Geddes' role in Reconstruction 3. The Humanist perspective: the return of Geddes, 1970s onwards 4. The Appreciation of Patrick Geddes as a Planner Today 5. Discussion: Geddes' Historiography as a Reflection of the History of Town Planning Part 2: Geddes and Geography 6. Geddes' Urban Conceptual Framework 7. Geography and Education: The Planning Tools 8. Geddes' Planning Theory, Critical Evaluations Part 3: Planning in the Colonies 9. The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition: Success and Failure 10. Surveys and Surgeries: Narratives of Old and New 11. The Regional Analysis: Rehabilitating the Mediterranean Basin 12. The Garden in the City: Civic Revival in Indore and Tel-Aviv 13. Civic Centers and Cultural Institutes: Enhancing Local Traditions? 14. Cloisters Between East and West: Incipient universities in Indore and in Jerusalem Part 4: Postcolonial Scrutiny 15. Patrick Geddes and Colonial Town Planning 16. Geddes at the Intersection of Geography, Posctolonialism and Planning 17. The Colonial Planning Gambit: In the Service of Imperial Societies? Conclusion: The Historiography of Town Planning, a Postcolonial Reading Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Noah Hysler Rubin is qualified as a town planner and holds a PhD in Geography. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University and teaches history and theory of town planning at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.