The Making of Classical Edinburgh: With Photographs by Edwin Smith
A J Youngson, "The Making of Classical Edinburgh: With Photographs by Edwin Smith"
English | ISBN: 1474448011 | 2019 | 448 pages | PDF | 263 MB
English | ISBN: 1474448011 | 2019 | 448 pages | PDF | 263 MB
This famous study of the planning, financing and building of the New Town in Edinburgh brings to life one of the most remarkable urban expansion programmes ever undertaken. A. J. Youngson brings to life the vigour of the planning debates, the fundraising schemes, the administrative and legislative infrastructure of planning, the construction of public buildings as poles of attraction for speculative building, and all the hopes, quarrels, victories and civic bankruptcy that went into this great experiment.
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