Lost Edinburgh Urban Design Planning and Housing Using photographs and plans

Using photographs and plans

University of East Anglia Enterprise Centre

Publication Date: March 2022

Short Code: CIC/ConsWa/E 2018

Lost Edinburgh Urban Design Planning and Housing Using photographs and plansFrom mean beginnings wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds, visiting French knights complained in 1341 the city of Edinburgh went on to become one of the architectural wonders of the world. But over the centuries many of its fine buildings have gone. Although invasion and civil strife played their part, some buildings simply collapsed of old age and neglect. Others were swept away in the improvements of the nineteenth century;