I'm one of the 'Dundee Three' being discussed by Keith Skene in this new evening class:
- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson : the great zoologist and a true polymath. He was the author of the book On Growth and Form, penned in Dundee, which would have widespread impacts on anthropology, architecture and developmental biology. He challenged Darwinian thinking, setting out a new theory of Structuralism, and inspiring others.
- Patrick Geddes : an extraordinary thinker, his work spanned ecology, botany, social science and town planning. Major design projects included Tel Aviv, inner-city transformations of Edinburgh and many cities in India. He transformed the subjects of urban renewal and of sociology, setting out a framework that would go on to inspire many urban planners and theorists including Lewis Mumford.
- Robert Smith. Raised in the Dundee Hilltown, Smith studied under Geddes and would become the first plant ecologist in Britain. He died aged 27, but by then had established ecology as a field of study in Britain, a legacy, which his brother William, saw to its completion.
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