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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Glendinning, Miles,; Page, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; Over 70 photographs
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474468510; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474468510
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Page, Miles Glendinning.

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