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Clone City : Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture / David Page, Miles Glendinning.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : Over 70 photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748662555
  • 9781474468510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720/.9411/0904 21
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. An Empty Vessel?: The Scottish City in Postmodern Space -- 2. Arbor Saeculorum: An Archaeology of Utopian Confrontation -- 3. Building a Democracy: A Reconciliation of People -- 4. Clydeforth: Conurbation In Landscape -- 5. Centres of Life: Eutopian Cities of Tomorrow -- 6. City Places- East and West -- 7. Conclusion: Monuments to the Future -- Notes -- List of Illustrations -- Index
Summary: 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 publicThe first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architectureSets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical contextExamines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. An Empty Vessel?: The Scottish City in Postmodern Space -- 2. Arbor Saeculorum: An Archaeology of Utopian Confrontation -- 3. Building a Democracy: A Reconciliation of People -- 4. Clydeforth: Conurbation In Landscape -- 5. Centres of Life: Eutopian Cities of Tomorrow -- 6. City Places- East and West -- 7. Conclusion: Monuments to the Future -- Notes -- List of Illustrations -- Index

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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 publicThe first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architectureSets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical contextExamines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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