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Geddes and work
Le Play's work, however, was taken up in Britain by Patrick Geddes and Andrew John Herbertson.
These were influenced by the garden city movement, launched around 1900 by Ebenezer Howard and Sir Patrick Geddes and the work of Raymond Unwin, and manifested at Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.
These grew out of the garden city movement, launched around 1900 by Ebenezer Howard and Sir Patrick Geddes and the work of Raymond Unwin, and manifested at Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.
The men would walk down from the hill on their way to work each day at the factories east of Tipperary Hill that lined Geddes, Fayette, Marcellus and Oswego streets on the city's Near Westside.
* The life and work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose by Patrick Geddes, Longmans London, 1920
Geddes drew on Le Play's circular theory of geographical locations presenting environmental limitations and opportunities that in turn determine the nature of work.
Drawing on the scientific method, Geddes encouraged close observation as the way to discover and work with the relationships among place, work and folk.
* The online Journal of Civics & Generalism, is an international collaborative project with extensive essays and graphic material inspired by the work of Patrick Geddes in a modern context
Conran was influenced by the designs of Norman Bel Geddes, an industrial designer who did work for the 1933 Chicago World ’ s Fair and designed exhibits for the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Geddes believes that " emotional content is an image's most important element " and that people are drawn to her work because of its simplicity and personality.
This enabled him to maintain contact with mentors such as Geddes and Thomson, and also gave him the opportunity to work during his free time in the Edinburgh laboratories where specimens brought back from the Challenger expedition were being examined and classified.
PhotoStamps currently offers specially licensed logos in association with NASCAR, NFL, College football, and the work of Anne Geddes.
The term had appeared much earlier, however, in the work of the polymathic Patrick Geddes and in a 1922 book review by Christopher Murray Grieve (" Hugh MacDiarmid ") for the Scottish Chapbook that predicted a " Scottish Renascence as swift and irresistible as was the Belgian Revival between 1880 and 1910.
The aforementioned Patrick Geddes would continue his foundational work in town and regional planning, developing the triad " Place-Work-Folk " as a matrix for new thinking about the relationships between people and their local environments.
While with the Earl of Cassillis he wrote his first work, A Dispute against the English Popish Ceremonies obtruded upon the Church of Scotland, which, published shortly after the " Jenny Geddes " incident ( but without the author's name ) in the summer of 1637, attracted considerable attention.
James Geddes, an engineer experienced from work on the New York canals, was employed.
The son of John Arthur Borron and Mary Geddes, he was educated at Lancashire, Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Edinburgh before entering work in his father's mines in Lanarkshire.
During this period she won the Philip Geddes Journalism Prize for her work on student newspapers, and after graduation completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at City University, London.

Geddes and improving
In and around this area Geddes commenced upon a project of conservative surgery ’: weeding out the worst of the houses that surrounded them … widening the narrow closes into courtyards ’ and thus improving sunlight and airflow.

Geddes and Edinburgh
I have lately been rambling over by Dumbarton and Inverary, and running a drunken race on the side of Loch Lomond with a wild Highlandman ; his horse, which had never known the ornaments of iron or leather, zigzagged across before my old spavin ’ d hunter, whose name is Jenny Geddes, and down came the Highlandman, horse and all, and down came Jenny and my bardship ; so I have got such a skinful of bruises and wounds, that I shall be at least four weeks before I dare venture on my journey to Edinburgh.
In 1886 Geddes and his newly married wife purchased a row of slum tenements in James Court, Edinburgh making it into a single dwelling.
In 1909, Geddes assisted in the early planning of the southern aspect of the Zoological Gardens in Edinburgh.
Rioting in opposition began when the Dean of Edinburgh, John Hannah, began to read from the new Book of Prayer, legendarily initiated by the market-woman or street-seller Jenny Geddes throwing her stool at his head.
The spark — riot in St Giles ' Cathedral, Edinburgh, reputedly started by Jenny Geddes.
Also about this time, he developed an intensely romantic but perhaps asexual attachment to Edith Wingate Rinder, another writer of the consciously Celtic Edinburgh circle surrounding Patrick Geddes and " The Evergreen.
Jenny Geddes ( c. 1600 – c. 1660 ) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh, who is alleged to have thrown her stool at the head of the minister in St Giles ' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer in Scotland.
The first use of the prayer book was in St Giles ' on Sunday 23 July 1637, when James Hannay, Dean of Edinburgh, began to read the Collects, part of the prescribed service, and Jenny Geddes, a market-woman or street-seller, threw her stool straight at the Minister's head.
In the aftermath of the riots definitive evidence is hard to come by, and some doubt if Jenny Geddes started the fight or if she even existed, but she remains a part of Edinburgh tradition and has long had a memorial in St Giles.
Born in British India, Geddes was the son of Auckland Campbell Geddes, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the elder brother of Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes.
Sir Arthur now learned that Fairford and Geddes were in the house ; but, before he was allowed to see them, they had been shown into the room where Lilias was waiting, when Alan became aware that his fair visitor at Edinburgh was his friend's sister, and heard from her lips all the particulars of her brother's history.
Geddes was born in Edinburgh.
Geddes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Geddes and led
Led by Geddes Granger, the National Joint Action Committee joined up with trade unionists led by George Weekes of the Oilfields Workers ' Trade Union and Basdeo Panday, then a young trade union lawyer and activist.
Geddes led the company into a series of joint ventures with customers in the development of new technologies, as well as exploration and development of new mines outside of Spain.
He served in the Second Boer War, led XIV Corps during World War I and later advised the Government on the implementation of the Geddes report, which advocated a large reduction in defence expenditure, and consequentially he officiated over a major reduction in the size of the British Army.
In reaction to the growth of the League, the Conservatives launched a Committee for National Expenditure, led by Eric Geddes, with the aim of cutting spending, and eventually acted on many of its recommendations.

Geddes and from
* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).
Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”
" He did not say, " We shall squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeak " ( that was Sir Eric Geddes ), but he did express that sentiment about reparations from Germany to pay the entire cost of the war, including pensions.
* Sir Edward Carson, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Eric Geddes – First Lord of the Admiralty
* Neville Chamberlain, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Auckland Geddes – Director of National Service
The name originates from 1798 when engineer and politician James Geddes built his estate, called " Fair Mount " at the intersection of Genesee Road ( now West Genesee Street ) and Onondaga Road.
Geddes was formed from Salina on March 18, 1848.
In 1841, W. H. Farrar, who had recently arrived from Vermont, started a small pottery business in the town of Geddes, New York called Farrar Pottery for making salt-glazed stoneware, an American ceramic product around since colonial times.
Before 1886, the entire Far Westside of what is now Syracuse from Burnet Park north to Milton Avenue in Solvay was known as the village of Geddes which was incorporated in 1832.
Patrick Magee from St. Patrick's Church aided materially in bringing about the annexation of Geddes.
It was an ambitious project and even Bishop Patrick A. Ludden ( 1836 – 1912 ) did not believe that a school could be built in Geddes at that time, however, in 1887, he gave Father Magee permission to purchase a plot of land opposite the church from the Mead Belden estate.
St. John the Baptist Greek Cemetery, later renamed to St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery is located on the south side of Salisbury Road in the town of Geddes directly across the street from the Sacred Heart Cemetery and is situated half a block to the west of South Avery Avenue.
The Balfour report of 1921, the Geddes Axe of 1922 and the Salisbury Committee of 1923 all found in favour of the RAF despite lobbying from the Admiralty and opposition in Parliament.
His last act as CIGS ( January 1922 ) was to argue against Geddes ’ recommendation of further army cuts of 50, 000 men ( from 210, 000 ) and £ 20m off the £ 75m estimates, leaving only 4 battalions in Ulster.
The company's first home was a four story building at the northeast corner of West Fayette and South Geddes streets, leased from the Brown Lipe Gear Company.
This consolidation came about as a result of Geddes Report, published in 1966 and the subsequent Shipbuilding Industry Act 1967, sponsored by the Ministry of Technology under Wedgewood Benn, which recommended rationalisation and horizontal integration of shipbuilding in the United Kingdom into large regional groups, aided with grants from the state Shipbuilding Industry Board, in order to achieve economies of scale and better compete in the market for increasingly large merchant vessels like VLCCs.
According to Geddes, it is from stable, healthy homes ’ providing the necessary conditions for mental and moral development that come beautiful and healthy children who are able to fully participate in life .’
These ideas can also be traced back to Geddes ' abiding interest in eastern philosophy which he believed more readily conceived of ' life as a whole ': as a result, civic beauty in India has existed at all levels, from humble homes and simple shrines to palaces magnificent and temples sublime .’
In Scotland and northern Ireland the name may be derived from the place-name Geddes in Nairn, Scotland.
The earliest written record of the surname Geddes is of William Ged, from Shropshire, England, recorded within the Pipe Rolls in the year 1230.

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