Is it safe for modernist architecture to come out yet? It's certainly not safe, from a sustainable point of view, to knock all the modernist buildings down. -No matter what the tourists might want in our 'heritage capitals'. As the Belfast taxi drivers say: 'There's two histories here, ye know.' Malcolm Fraser considers another looming crater in the hollowing out of the city and its potential reconstruction as part of the pretty stage set.
WEALTH OR WASTE : Edinburgh and the Extractive Economy by Malcolm Fraser