Builders of Edinburgh's New Town, 1767-1795

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Deals with the builders - 'professional designers, tradesmen, labourers and investors' - responsible for the development of Edinburgh's New Town, reckoned 'one of the largest urban improvement schemes in Great Britain' in the 18th century and 'typical of English civic improvement programmes'. Analyses the builders in terms of 1] administration, 2] work and 3] businesses. Provides 'case studies of architects like Robert Adam, James Craig, Sir James Clerk, William Keys, Robert Robinson and David Henderson ... [along with] builders like John Brough, Andrew Neal, the Chrystie family, William Morrison and others in which individual developers, family businesses and partnership businesses are studied to show that builders saw themselves as an emerging, unified profession'. Has sections: 1] 'Edinburgh Town Council's administration of the New Town' - including 'Builders and Edinburgh politics' / 'Builders and financial management'; 2] 'Building houses' - 'How were houses built?' / 'Who built houses?' / 'Interiors'; 3] 'The building business' - 'Property investment groups' / 'Business plans' / 'Building with success' / 'Working beyond Edinburgh'