- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Birlinn Ltd (19 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841587478
- ISBN-13: 978-1841587479
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 323,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'should be compulsory set texts for every architecture student' --Scottish Daily Mail
'[a] fascinating guide' --The Scotsman
'[a] fascinating guide' --The Scotsman
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What happened to Edinburgh's once notorious but picturesque Tolbooth Prison? Where was the Black Turnpike, once a dominant building in the town? Why has one of the New Town designer's major layouts been all but obliterated? What else has been lost in Edinburgh? From Edinburgh's mean beginnings 'wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds', visiting French knights complained in 1341 it went on to attract some of the world's greatest architects to design and build and shape a unique city. But over the centuries many of those fine buildings have gone. Some were destroyed by invasion and civil strife, some simply collapsed with old age and neglect, and others were swept away in the 'improvements' of the nineteenth century. Yet more fell to the developers' swathe of destruction in the twentieth century. Much of the medieval architecture vanished in the Old Town, Georgian Squares were attacked, Princes Street ruined, old tenements razed in huge slum clearance drives, and once familiar and much loved buildings vanished. The changing pattern of industry, social habits, health service, housing and road systems all took their toll; not even the city wall was immune. The buildings which stood in the way of what was deemed progress are the heritage of Lost Edinburgh. In this informative and stimulating book Hamish Coghill sets out to trace many of the lost buildings and find out why they were doomed. Lavishly illustrated, 'Lost Edinburgh' is a fascinating insight into an ever-changing cityscape.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I got this book for a friend for Christmas, after a weekend in Edinburgh, the book is very interesting with good history and photographs and old sketching s of Edinburgh that indeed is lost. Well worth the money
15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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This excellent descriptive book takes the typical architectural view that all old buildings should be preserved as part of our heritage despite the cost and any measures to upset this view are unwanted and unwarrented developments.
Very good thumbnail sketches of long forgotten buildings bring back memories of time gone past but never recognises the fact that many old buildings reach a sell-by date and should be demolished.
The sketches and illustrations are first class if a bit fanciful on some occasions
One thing the book does not recognise is the atrocious rat infested,flea lice and bedbug infected,damp, smelly and unhygenic buildings that existed in Edinburgh e.g. Arthur street, Beaumont place,Dumbiedykes, Greenside row and many parts of Leith that were present
into the latter years of the 20 century.
To advance any community must look to the future and demolish the useless past.It is a pity the author did not recognise this.
Despite all the above this is an excellent book and the author is to be congratulated but I hope in future editions he will take a more humanist approach-it is people that count not buildings.
Very good thumbnail sketches of long forgotten buildings bring back memories of time gone past but never recognises the fact that many old buildings reach a sell-by date and should be demolished.
The sketches and illustrations are first class if a bit fanciful on some occasions
One thing the book does not recognise is the atrocious rat infested,flea lice and bedbug infected,damp, smelly and unhygenic buildings that existed in Edinburgh e.g. Arthur street, Beaumont place,Dumbiedykes, Greenside row and many parts of Leith that were present
into the latter years of the 20 century.
To advance any community must look to the future and demolish the useless past.It is a pity the author did not recognise this.
Despite all the above this is an excellent book and the author is to be congratulated but I hope in future editions he will take a more humanist approach-it is people that count not buildings.
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