Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

This means that its task is not to coerce people into new places against their associations wiPatrick Geddess and interest as we find bad schemes trying to do. The point of this model was to make clear the complex and interrelated relationships between humans and their environment and to encourage regional planning models that would be responsive to these conditions. City Development A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust (1904) Rutgers University Press.

He was responsible for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and is also known to have coined the term "conurbation". Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist sociologist geographer philanthropist and pioneering town planner (see List of urban theorists).