Images from the Geddes Archive at Strathclyde University.
Below are excerpts from notes taken at the Geddes archive.
“I have rambled through many cities and have found no better site for an Outlook Tower than here in Edinburgh” - P. Geddes.
“The Tower is a civic observatory” - P. Geddes.
Quotations from a brochure advertising Edinburgh’s Outlook Tower – publish date unknown.
“The Outlook Tower may be defined as an attempt at an encyclopaedia arranged not in alphabetical order but in rational order.”
“...tower is an essay towards exhibiting things in their mutual relationships, not in printed but in graphic form.”
“And we who have suffered somewhat from the cast iron rigidity of codes rejoice at the dawn of a new era in education.”
Quotations from an article by George Bizet in the Leith Observer of 25/9/1898.
“Here may ye see infinite riches in a little room.” - P. Geddes
“The spirit creative is liberated in flight but too timidly and on dissevered quests. It is time for a clearer understanding, deeper unison between all men, women of good will and high endeavour. So may be prepared definitely planned campaigns of the making and maintenance of worthy homes, smiling villages and noble cities.” - P. Geddes
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