EDINBURGH: A Guide to Recent Architecture (Architectural Travel Guides) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Rodger, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841660663 ISBN 13: 9781841660660

Verlag: Batsford, 2002

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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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• Verlag: Batsford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1841660663
• ISBN 13: 9781841660660
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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