This book explores Patrick Geddes⁰́₉s significant contributions to urban planning and sociology. His vision of the city, rooted in the principles of social development and preservation of cultural and ecological resources, has inspired generations of urban planners, architects an…
This book situates Patrick Geddes within his own intellectual background (described by George Davie as 'the democratic intellect') and explores the relevance of that background to Geddes's substantial national and international achievements across a truly impressive range of dis…
Jamaica -- Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects -- The two Jamaicas -- Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing thinking -- Race and its disavowal -- Leaving Jamaica -- Conscripts of modernity -- Journey to an illusion -- Encountering Oxford: the makings of a diasporic self -- Carib…
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured thems…
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
With great insight, compassion, and wit Stuart Hall (1932-2014) tells how his experiences-from growing up in colonial Jamaica and attending Oxford to participating in the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain-shaped his intellectual and political work to become one of his a…