In the later 18th c., proposals
were made by the Town Council to build a New Town to the
North of the Old Town, on the marshes; a competition was
organised, and the entry submitted by the architect James
Craig was declared the winner.
This is best studied by using maps in conjunction with
photographs, relating the overall design visible at the
cartographic scale and the architecture visible at a smaller
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SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources
Access Network) is a database
of documents on Scottish culture,
daily life and history.
1) It can be browsed through
topics, eg. "People", "Places", and
"Ideas" among which you will find "New
Horizons" or "Powering the Textile Industry"
2) or
it can be searched like a database, eg. placing a query
such as "James Craig"
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http://www.scran.ac.uk
(some parts of the SCRAN website are in open access, others
are available by subscription).
Writing "James Craig" in the search box, you
will have access to "Craig's gridiron street plan
for the New Town", to aerial views of Charlotte Square
and of the New Town, illustrating Craig's geometrical
design, and to views of houses in Charlotte Square built
by Robert Adam. From here, a list of topics in the lower
part of the page can give you access to frames on related
subjects, such as "architecture and buildings",
or "Robert Adam".
The references of the documents are given in detail, eg.
belonging to RCHMS (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
of Scotland)
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