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A concise and critical pocket-sized guide to the architecture of Edinburgh - home of the world-famous Edinburgh Festival and the fourth largest financial centre in Europe. It focuses on significant projects built since 1990 as well as providing practical information for vistors.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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A concise and critical pocket-sized guide to the architecture of Edinburgh - home of the world-famous Edinburgh Festival and the fourth largest financial centre in Europe. It focuses on significant projects built since 1990 as well as providing practical information for vistors.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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It would be easy to assume that the large amount of building works and new construction in Edinburgh is a consequence of the siting of the new Scottish seat of government, tagged as a 'pretendy Parliament' by Scottish stage personality Billy Connolly. But factors more mundane than the urgings of the 'democratic spirit' can explain this spate of new building: in particular Edinburgh's position as the fourth biggest financial centre in Europe; the incidence of developer rather than open competitions; the invitation extended to the American modernist architect Richard Meier to come up with a masterplan for the design of the Edinburgh Park business centre; and Edinburgh's 1970s love-affair with the motor-car, the resultant fractured city and early new-millennium ambivalence about private/public transport.Around 100 entries in this book give a framework for understanding what all this means for Edinburgh's built environment and for reading recent architectural design in the city.
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Edinburgh: A Guide to Recent Architecture
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paperback. Condición: Very Good. Light wear, slight creasing to top corner, binding sound, internally clean. It would be natural to assume that the large amount of new construction in Edinburgh is a consequence of its restored role as a capital city with political purpose, signified most dramatically by the siting here of the new Scottish parliament. But factors more mundane than the urgings of the 'democratic spirit' can explain this spate of building. In particular Edinburgh's position as the fourth-biggest financial centre in Europe; the incidence of developer rather than open competitions; and the invitation extended to the American modernist architect Richard Meier to come up with a masterplan for the design of Edinburgh Park business centre, have brought responses to the city's 197os love-affair with the motor-car and to the resultant problems of a fractured city. Around a hundred entries in this book give a framework for under-standing what all this means for Edinburgh's built environment and for reading recent architectural design in the city. Johnny Rodger is a writer who lives and works in Glasgow. Nº de ref. del artículo: 230219006
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