Lecture Series November: Edinburgh’s First New Town - A Vision Realised

Schedule

Thu Nov 28 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Gladstone's Land | Edinburgh, SC

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Come and explore the development of Edinburgh's New Town with Eric Melvin in this Lecture Series
About this Event

By the 1750s the Old Town of Edinburgh was grossly overcrowded. Some 55,000 people were crammed within the city walls. With no open space for building, Edinburgh climbed skywards. Daniel Defoe, who visited Edinburgh in 1725 was astonished to note tenements “which on the south side appear to be eleven or twelve stories high and inhabited to the very top.” Other visitors were less complimentary. John Taylor complained that “Every street shows the nastiness of the inhabitants; the excrement lies in heaps.” Something had to be done.It took the drive and determination of Lord Provost George Drummond to take forward his dream of what even then was called the New Town. Rather than hand over the open land to the north to developers, to his credit Drummond organized a competition won by the young Edinburgh architect James Craig. Drummond did not live to see work start on the first house in 1767, but his vision survives as the finest example of Georgian town planning in the UK.

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Gladstone's Land, 477B Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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