Description: The first in-depth study of the history of Scottish new towns - their architecture, planning and communities.
Brief description: Valerie Wright is Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Review Quotes:
"Building Modern Scotland is a timely and deeply researched volume documenting Scotland's five post-war new towns... More than an architectural monograph, it is a critical social history that weaves together architectural analysis, planning policy, spatial design, and lived experience." --Fabrications, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
"Building Modern Scotland represents the best kind of urban history. Thematically ambitious, yet grounded in time and place, this book places Scottish new towns into broader conversations about modernization, the built environment, lived experience, and a dynamic welfare state." --Guy Ortolano, Professor and Chair of History, New York University, USA "This exciting new book explores the contribution of the New Towns to realising a modern Scotland. The work provides deep insights into the planning, building, and lived and felt experiences of five new towns in the second half of the twentieth century. These findings should be of real interest to anyone involved in planning, designing, and building new towns in the twenty-first century." --Rebecca Madgin, Professor of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, UK "Packed with insight, beautifully illustrated, and based on the most exacting scholarship, this will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of modern Scotland. More than that, it begs important questions about the present and the future too." --William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History, University of Oxford, UK