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Drummond Place
terminates the eastern end of Great King Street, the most prominent axis in
Edinburgh's Northern New Town. The ensemble of the Northern New Town represents
the largest urban…
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Cowgate
is a street that runs from the Grassmarket in the West to Hollyrood Road in the
East. A major artery in Edinburgh's Old Town, it winds along a low valley
between the High Street and the…
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Ravelston Garden
Ravelston Garden was designed between 1935 and 1937 by
Norman Neil and Robert Hurd. Three blocks of sixteen flats each are set in a
garden. Each block is X-shaped in plan, meaning…
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In 1130 King David I founded the town by ‘feuing’ (leasing
land) for building. The Royal Mile is lined with tenements, separated by closes,
and accessed by staircases at the rear.…
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Calton Hill
Developed during the first third of the 19th century
as part of plans for Edinburgh’s Third New Town by William Henry Playfair, this
site addresses changes in topography within…
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The Royal Circus
terminates the western end of Great King Street, acting as a counterpart to
Drummond Place in Edinburgh's Northern New Town. Built to the designs of
William Henry Playfair from…
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Across Scotland between
the 1920s and the 1980s, a substantial programme of mass housing for subsidised
rent was delivered by town and city councils. In Edinburgh, the key decade was
the 1960s, when…
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George Square (general)
George Square is at the heart of the University of
Edinburgh’s central campus. Laid out in the eighteenth century, during the
1940s plans were made to rebuild the…
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Old College is the heart of Edinburgh
University. Initial designs for the building were drawn by Robert Adam in 1789.
Adam envisioned a building with two internal courtyards terminating in a…
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