An annotated reader of key works by Sir Patrick Geddes

- Patrick Geddes' written work spans multiple disciplines and often includes common themes.
- He provides a method of critically analyzing challenges and opportunities in city development.
- His suggested planning concepts include holistic urban and regional solutions.

This annotated reader of key articles and essays by Sir Patrick Geddes' aims to help the readers of the Special Issue have a grasp of Geddes' contribution to city and landscape planning. The articles in this section were selected and included in this bibliography because they address certain general issues of importance to Geddes that are still important at present time. Taken together, his distinct methods and themes have an interdisciplinary development and application that provide contemporary urban planners a life-centered foundation for theory and practice. (For extended bibliographies of Geddes' opus see Noah Hysler-Rubin's Patrick Geddes and Town Planning: A Critical Review, John Scott and Ray Bromley's Envisioning Sociology: Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction, and Phillip Boardman's Esquisse de l'oeuvre educatrice de Patrick Geddes, suivie de trois listes bibliographiques).