MAPS OF ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT GEORGIAN CITIES

Three cities remarkable for their architectural developments in the 18th century were London, Bath and Edinburgh; this was the era of 'Georgian' classical architecture (Georgian: the era named after the kings of the House of Hanover, all named George, who reigned from 1714 onwards).

You may study the new Georgian areas of these cities from the following websites:

 
  • London
 
Pevsner's reference book Nikolaus Pevsner (1901-83) was an architectural historian who edited the 'Buildings of England' series of books describing all buildings of architectural significance for each county.
digital maps the site of a publisher of digital maps

 

  • Bath
 
a website on the city look for photographs of the Georgian buildings
the CASA model (Completed Projects/The Bath model) the computer model done by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bath, CASA = the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture - a pun on 'casa'= house in Italian or Spanish - which authors architectural computer models

 

  • Edinburgh
 
SCRAN

SCRAN: Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network.
Look for maps of Edinburgh in the search engine.

(accessible by subscription; our University has a subscription, see the University website, page 'Documentation/Bibliothèque électronique' for a list of the resources, and how to obtain remote access)