The Making Of Classical Edinburgh
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the turn of the eighteenth century, Edinburgh underwent one of the most ambitious urban transformations in European history — a deliberate, visionary effort to remake a medieval city into a monument of Enlightenment ideals. A.J. Youngson's The Making of Classical Edinburgh chronicles the dramatic architectural and civic evolution of Scotland's capital, tracing the ambitions of planners, architects, and patrons who carved the celebrated New Town from the rocky landscape north of the Old Town. With meticulous scholarship, Youngson details the interplay of economic forces, civic pride, and aesthetic philosophy that produced the neoclassical streetscapes and grand public buildings now considered among Britain's finest urban achievements. Youngson writes with the precision of a historian and the eye of an architectural connoisseur, weaving together biography, urban theory, and social history to illuminate how a city can become the physical embodiment of an era's ideals. The Making of Classical Edinburgh stands as a landmark work in Scottish urban history, essential reading for anyone captivated by the relationship between architecture and civic identity. Its enduring question — how beauty and ambition can be reconciled in the shaping of a city — resonates far beyond Edinburgh's Georgian terraces.
Author: A.J. Youngson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Architecture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turn of the eighteenth century, Edinburgh underwent one of the most ambitious urban transformations in European history — a deliberate, visionary effort to remake a medieval city into a monument of Enlightenment ideals. A.J. Youngson's The Making of Classical Edinburgh chronicles the dramatic architectural and civic evolution of Scotland's capital, tracing the ambitions of planners, architects, and patrons who carved the celebrated New Town from the rocky landscape north of the Old Town. With meticulous scholarship, Youngson details the interplay of economic forces, civic pride, and aesthetic philosophy that produced the neoclassical streetscapes and grand public buildings now considered among Britain's finest urban achievements. Youngson writes with the precision of a historian and the eye of an architectural connoisseur, weaving together biography, urban theory, and social history to illuminate how a city can become the physical embodiment of an era's ideals. The Making of Classical Edinburgh stands as a landmark work in Scottish urban history, essential reading for anyone captivated by the relationship between architecture and civic identity. Its enduring question — how beauty and ambition can be reconciled in the shaping of a city — resonates far beyond Edinburgh's Georgian terraces.