European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse A statue of to Duke of Wellington one of the City s Many monuments surveys Edinburgh s downtown area from the Corner of princes Street North Bridge. A a continued from Page j. City Center like an ancient Sentinel. A one reasons for Edinburgh s Beauty is that its is fuelled predominantly by clean Industry a electronics food finance insurance. There Are no. Sprawling complexes of manufacturing plants warehouses it is. Also a virtually no Urban. Sprawl i his is especially evident when approaching from the Southwest where the open farming country of the a Hast Lothian lowlands stretches right up to the City limits. Rolling Hills Green valleys suddenly become City. Parks streets blocks of buildings. A Roger carter., head of the Edinburgh Tom i get Bureau most of the City s 2.3 million annual visitors arc attracted by Quot a combination of the Beauty of the City in terms of its. Townscape natural Relief its Ama my of particular interest to the More than a Quarter million of the tourists who Are americans cat Lei says is the Tael that Edinburgh is Quot the. Capital of a 1. Hint in that provide Many of the original founders of . A a a a a in one sense the scottish capital since 14.57 is sharply inconsistent with the image of the former medieval a. Kingdom As . At. First glance this genteel world-.1 t lass City seems to have Little in common with a land whose most enduring image is the wild windswept moors of the Highlands kit beneath the Sui face there is much that binds the City to rest of. Scotland. Not the least of these common threads is the a. I Leilly ions attitude of its residents 1 ire open airy Edinburgh til today is a tar Ery trom amadeus the earliest settlement Likely. Loim ded around . 500, utilized the strategic advantages at lorded by the site s most important g Ogia in Al the huge Basalt Hummock today. In Mumm a 52 v1 i s. % k a bus tour group stops in front of Edinburgh Castle the City s most famous landmark. Called Castle Rock la ancient gaelic name. Do Widyn a a meant fortress town. A a. A. Over the centuries the town grew asm series of expanding Lorli cations were built on the crag which a extends to the East in a narrow Ridge. Tins mini. A Molin Lam which had been selected Lor its defensive advantages eventually became a. Liability As More More people were squeezed into the same Small space i Maze of Clauser Ophic passageways High narrow dwellings huddled together on the Rock l.3ut in the. Lite Utah Century Edinburgh finally broke its Shat Kies. In a Brilliant stroke of Early Urban planning the City Council decided to create a completely new City to the North keeping with the spirit of the times they conceived a grand expansive design with lots of open a space a the exact opposite of the old town s stunted confinement. Today Edinburgh s population of around 130,000 is spread out. In an area that seems to have As Many Parks squares other open areas As blocks of buildings. A a. Some of the flavor of the old Edinburgh remains Alon the Quot Royal Milo Quot the strip of Post medieval dwellings 4 11 stripes Magazine june 27, 1991
