Geddes and Le Play

Updated April 2021

The Le Play Society has been mentioned in quite a few posts on the blog so far.
It was linked with the work of someone else who has been mentioned: Patrick Geddes.
Le Play was actually named after a French sociologist.
Patrick Geddes influenced, and helped to train several GA Presidents, and also present day geographers remain intrigued by his work.




Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Guillaume_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_le_Play

Beaver, S. H. “The Le Play Society and Field Work.” Geography, vol. 47, no. 3, 1962, pp. 225–240. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40565418. Accessed 3 May 2020.

Update April 2021

According to this piece in the GA journal 'The Geographical Teacher' (1921), Patrick Geddes was a GA Vice President... I wonder whether he may have become President.

“Editorial.” The Geographical Teacher, vol. 11, no. 2, 1921, pp. 3–5. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40555898. Accessed 11 Apr. 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Geddes

Find out more about him in this short film - plenty more to explore here.

Patrick Geddes - Renascence Man from Stephen Robinson on Vimeo.

Patrick Geddes was an amazing late Victorian polymath who had far reaching ideas about the environment and Man's place within it. I was commissioned by McManus Galleries, Dundee to film and direct a short documentary to accompany an exhibition about his professional life.