Glasgow Guide by Frank Walker

Glasgow Guide by Frank Walker

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A guide to Glasgow, this book focuses on the regeneration projects that the city is undergoing, comparing the contemporary architecture with the Victorian and Edwardian buildings. The guide describes over 150 buildings.

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Glasgow Guide by Frank Walker

In this guide, the reader will find Glasgow's buildings grouped geographically. Five areas have been determined which show the town's development from medieval cathedral town to the New Town expansion promoted by a mercantile aristocracy in the late 18th century to the industrial, commercial and residential growth that accompanied Glasgow's rise to beome Second City of the Empire. Within the five principal aras are several sub-groups in each of which the more interesting buildings of a particular locality have been identified. Most of these local groupings can be reagarded as city walks. While an attempt has been made to be comprehensive, to offer a wide range of building types and to show the work of Glasgow's finest architects past and present, an architectural guide such as this, based predominantly on a compilation of individual buildings, must run a risk of misrepresentation. The author has thus also selected whole areas beyond the centre of town such as Park, Woodside and Hyndland which should provide a changce to experience the terraced and tenemented subjurbs which also form part of Glasgow's townscape.
Walker, Fran: - Fran Walker, mother of two sons, Michael R. Payne and Eszavion L. Franklin, Jr. A United States Army Honorable Disabled Veteran and retired from the Veterans Affairs. License Ordained Minister, Certified Mental Health Facilitator, Inactive Real Estate Broker, and other work fields. She holds a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies, Associate in Entrepreneurship, and Studies in Real Estate. Fran's strong opinionated views, cares for the future, and natural abilities to write drew her to compose a book.
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ISBN 13 9781854543011
ISBN 10 1854543016
Title Glasgow Guide
Author Frank Walker
Series Phaidon Architecture Guides
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Phaidon Press Ltd
Year published 1992-04-24
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.