ISBN: 9781845860004
Format: Paperback/400pp
Price: £30.00
Publication Month: October 2004
The Architecture of Scottish Government traces the evolution from feudalism to Presbyterian imperialism and, in turn, to modern social democracy as it is, literally, inscribed in stone. It provides an historical overview of Scottish buildings of government and assembly from the Middle Ages to the present day and sets Scotland's new parliament in the broader context of the nation's architectural and social history. In sharp contrast to the traditional Victorian and early twentieth-century concept of the grand, monumental parliament building standing self-centred and in isolation, it shows how parliaments have formed just one element in a complex and constantly changing mosaic of buildings of legislation and administration. It covers the great halls of kingly power, the town halls of civic pride and the towers of twentieth-century welfare administration.
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