INTRODUCTION; An introduction to Edinburgh and its relevance for urban development; Professor Brian Edwards, School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art and Dr. Paul Jenkins, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University; SECTION I THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH; 1. Early beginnings and urban growth up to c.1730: the evolution of the medieval and renaissance city; Dr Ian Campbell and Margaret Stewart, School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art; 2. Twinning cities: modernisation versus improvement in the two towns of Edinburgh; Professor Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architecture, University of Dundee; 3. Landscape, topography and hydrology; John Stuart-Murray, Head of School of Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art; SECTION II THE CITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE; 4. Capital landscapes: industry and the built environment in Edinburgh; Professor Richard Rodger, Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester; 5. The development of tenement housing; Dr. Peter Robinson, Architect and Planner, Edinburgh;; SECTION III URBAN MANAGEMENT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; 6. 'Conservative surgery' in Old Edinburgh, 1890-1940; Dr. Lou Rosenburg, Senior Research Fellow, School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, and Jim Johnston, Architect; 7. Housing and suburbanisation in the early and mid 20th century; Dr. Miles Glendinning, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland; 8. The changing role of the planner before and after the Second World War and the effect on urban form; Professor Cliff Hague, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University; SECTION IV THE CITY IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL AND POST-MODERN AGE; 9. New provision and conservation in the built environment in the latter part of the 20th century; Dr. Paul Jenkins and Dr. Julian Holder School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art and; 10. Preparing for the 21st century: the city in a global environment; Derek Kerr, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University; 11. The changing image and identity of the city in the 21st century: 'Athens of the North' or 'North of Athens'; Professor Cliff Hague and Dr. Paul Jenkins, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University;; CONCLUSIONS; 12. Learning from history; Professor Brian Edwards, School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art and Dr. Paul Jenkins, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University.

Not so much a celebration of Edinburgh's past as a passionate and serious-minded attempt to secure its future as a dynamic capital city of global significance, written by a group of expert researchers who clearly care a great deal about their subject. -- Mark Towsey, University of St Andrews Scottish Historical Review Not so much a celebration of Edinburgh's past as a passionate and serious-minded attempt to secure its future as a dynamic capital city of global significance, written by a group of expert researchers who clearly care a great deal about their subject.