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<div align="center"><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental <br>
and Agricultural History<br>
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“Patrick Geddes and Ecological Town <br>
Planning in India”<br>
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Ramachandra Guha<br>
Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies<br>
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Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) was a pioneering ecologist and town planner
who is known for his work in his native Scotland and known in the United
States through the work of his disciple Lewis Mumford. This talk
will focus on Geddes’s fascinating yet largely forgotten time in India,
where he spent eight years and wrote more than fifty town plans. It
will explore the main themes of Geddes’s plans, while also indicating
their relevance for contemporary India, which will soon have the largest
urban population in the world.<br>
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Friday, September 22, 2006<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
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Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact
Margo Collett at
<a href="file:///mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a><br>
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