Edinburgh The Making Of A Capital City
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Edinburgh
This book provides a unique and comprehensive review of the making and re-making of Edinburgh over most of the last millennium. A series of themes of wide relevance are explored and discussed in the context of their impact upon the form of the city and its success as a capital. These include: *The European influence on urban and architectural form.*The synthesis of architecture, landscape and topography.*The dialogue between conservation and innovation.*The search for social, economic and cultural sustainability.*The role of governance and public action in urban ecology.A special feature of the book is the way the Old and New Towns are discussed as a connected problem of image and politics, rather than two isolated events in the history of the city. Likewise, the relations between the city centre, the suburban edge and beyond throughout the 20th century are examined holistically, allowing the reader to gain a broader perspective both of the city of today and of the future. What emerges is a city unique - at least in the UK - in terms of the care taken over its image and sense of identity, and the political and institutional investment made in preserving this.Key Features: *Deals with the development of the city in a holistic manner.*Relates the physical evolution of the city to wide social, cultural, economic and political movements in the UK and Europe.*Uses design, conservation, sustainability and governance as major structuring themes.*Presents fresh perspectives on the making and re-making of Edinburgh over a period of nearly 1,000 years.
Edinburgh - The Making of a Capital City
Author: Brian Edwards
language: en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date: 2019-07-29
Introduction / Brian Edwards and Paul Jenkins --The evolution of the medieval and Renaissance city /Ian Campbell and Margaret Stewart --Twinning cities : modernisation versus improvement in the two towns of Edinburgh /Charles McKean --Landscape, topography and hydrology /John Stuart-Murray --Landscapes of capital : industry and the built environment in Edinburgh, 1750-1920 /Richard Rodger --Edinburgh--a tenement city? /Peter Robinson --'Conservative surgery' in Old Edinburgh, 1880-1940 /Lou Rosenburg and Jim Johnson --Housing and suburbanisation in the early and mid-20th century /Miles Glendinning --The changing role of the planner before and after the Second World War and the effect on urban form /Cliff Hague --Creation and conservation of the built environment in the later 20th century /Paul Jenkins and Julian Holder --Preparing for the 21st century : the city in a global environment /Derek Kerr --The changing image and identity of the city in the 21st century : 'Athens of the North' or 'North of Athens' /Cliff Hague and Paul Jenkins --Conclusion :Learning from history /Brian Edwards and Paul Jenkins.
Tenement Nation
Author: Christa Ballard Tooley
language: en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date: 2023-06-06
Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland, a closer look reveals the growth of liberal democratic ideals in the working-class population, which has a much different goal: How can this European city keep the entrepreneurial forces of globalization from commodifying what is distinctly theirs? In Tenement Nation, Christa Ballard Tooley explores the battle for a neighborhood called the Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town. Tooley's insightful study of the working-class Canongate community as they negotiate gentrification plans offers a complex view of class and nation. The threat of the Canongate's redevelopment motivated many throughout Edinburgh to lend their support to the residents' campaign. Against such development projects, alliances formed between upper-class heritage supporters and working-class urban residents, all of whom turned to institutions such as the European Union and UNESCO for support in restricting commercial development. Tenement Nation explores these negotiations between socioeconomic classes and even nationalities to show what Tooley calls a "working-class cosmopolitanism" in pursuit of social, economic, and political inclusion.