Clone City: Crisis And Renewal In Contemporary Scottish Architecture; Author: Glendinning, Miles; Joint Author: Page, David; Paperback

Author: Glendinning, Miles; Joint Author: Page, David
Paperback; 70 B&w Photographs
192 pages
Published: May 1999
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748662553

Clone City brings architecture into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity for the first time. It analyzes polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalization 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, showing how that process can actively help in the building of a Scottish identity under home rule.Subtitled Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture. An analysis of how market-led globalization has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment. It suggests how architecture can actively help to build a new Scottish identity and democracy, not just in a few symbolic national monuments but across the whole urban environment.