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- W2405992242 abstract "From the state of the trees, the season is summer. From the shadows thrown by a couple of large gasometers, the time is clearly early afternoon. And from the way the waves are breaking on the beach at Cramond, the wind is in the north east.The image appears also to be recent. A few hundred metres—or, if you prefer it, a few millimetres—from where I type this, there is a tiny line across a suburban road: a footbridge that was erected just about a year ago.Edinburgh is looking good: a vast intricate study in grey and green. James Craig's New Town (c 1776), a formal composition of squares, terraces, circles, and crescents, is the centrepiece. To the south are the castle and the intricacies of the Old Town, and east of that the city's peculiar inner urban wilderness: the craggy, cliff-bound mass of Arthur's Seat.South Edinburgh is memory lane as seen from space. There is the medical school and teaching hospital, and a grassy 18th century square where 30 years ago dozens of us lay around in the hot anxious weeks before finals, worrying, cheering each other up, and sometimes even revising.Great buildings, designed to impress, are far less impressive from the sky. Holyrood palace is reduced to a quadrangle topped in rather a naff shade of pale blue; the castle to a jumble of roofs recognisable only by its location. And between them, and still not offering much more than the raw earth of a building site, is the new parliament. Already I worry about how it will look in satellite photography.All over there are green spaces: woods, parks, playing fields, golf courses—with at least a dozen of the latter, from lowly Carricknowe to lofty Burgess. There is water too: dull brown ponds here and there; a river winding north and east to the sea; a single canal now going nowhere.Around the edges, the green spaces are broader. The eye scans for familiar roads and journeys, then lights suddenly upon an oddity in the south east: a large, flat, grey, irregular, and truncated structure. One side is gently curved, and from it nine blank square apertures stare heavenwards. Has alien life finally landed? In Gilmerton?Yes. Well, maybe. On balance, probably yes. It is our brave new £270m private finance initiative, the New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and it will open for business next year." @default.
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- W2405992242 title "Soundings: Looking down on Edinburgh" @default.
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