Author : Glendinning Miles Glendinning
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468519
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Book Synopsis Clone City by : Glendinning Miles Glendinning
Download or read book Clone City written by Glendinning Miles Glendinning and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clone City brings architecture, for the first time, into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity. It analyses polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalisation has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment. It examines the pointers to possible solutions provided by history, and especially by the lessons of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Building on these examples, it sketches out ways in which a more socially organic and place-specific architecture can be reconciled with modernity's pressure of freedom and individuality and it shows how that process can actively help in the building of a Scottish identity under home rule.* Integrates architecture and the built environment into mainstreamScottish cultural identity debates; introduces architectural issues to the wider Scottish public* The first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architecture* Sets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical context* Examines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city