Date: 02 October 07
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The starting point for the book is the future of the hinterland between Scotland’s two great cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. It features ten creative responses; four critical essays; details of four radical proposals for the area by groups of leading architects and urban designers; maps of Scotland showing the changing landscape of the country from the early the 19th to the early 21st century.
A collection of creative and critical writing, edited by Willey Maley.
176pp. Paperback, full colour images.
Price: £10
Published by The Lighthouse
Click here to buy a copy online via The Lighthouse Shop
CONTENTS
Foreword and Introduction:
From Nick Barley, Director of The Lighthouse and Florian Kossak curator of the associated SHIFTS exhibition.
Creative Writings:
Willey Maley – Scotland with Substance
Zoe Strachen – Pipe Dreams of a Post-Industrial Arcadia (listen online)
Sheila Puri – Guru of The Gorbals (listen online)
Pat Kane – Human Traffic (listen online)
Laura Marney – EK OK
Stuart Murray – On The Train
Anne Donovan – Heart of Scotland
Alan Bisset – The Shutdown
Dorothy Alexander – Mined
Louise Welsh – Too beautiful for You.
Projections for the Central Belt 2057:
In The Muckle Canal 2057 Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, working with Prue Chiles of Bureau of Design Research, Sheffield and Riccardo Marini, Design Leader for Edinburgh’s City Council, propose a return to the canals as a major transport artery.
The future of the M8 Motorway is at the centre of the M8-PARK proposals by G.R.A.S. (Groves Raines Architects Studio), of Glasgow with David van Zelm van Eldik of Routeontwerp, The Hague and John Crawford of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.
For Linlithgow/Edinburgh-based architects, Cadell2 and David Simm of Jan Gehl Architects, Copenhagen the geography of Scotland forms the starting point for The Counter Tectonics.
In SLOAP SHIFTS Voluntary Design and Build in partnership with Eva Dalman from Malmö and Gerry Grams, Glasgow City Council’s design adviser propose a fundamental shift in attitude towards the small corners and strips of land that are currently left over in the planning process.
Critical Writings:
Miles Glendinning - Half a Revolution – The Clyde Plan and its uncertain Legacy
Calum McCallum – Sustainable Transport
Jonathan Charley – Smash and Grab - The Political Economy of Urban Regeneration in Scotland’s Six Cities Western Europe 2057
Prue Chiles – The Future is a Foreign Country
Historical Shift Maps
Seven full colour maps showing the development of the region over the last 200 years.
Lighthouse Publication in-store offer
To celebrate the launch of the Shifts publication, selected Lighthouse publications are now buy on get one half-price.
