List of Illustrations

1. Glasgow viewed from the south, 1695

2. Edinburgh pictured from the north, 1695

3. Skyline of Edinburgh, seen from Princes Street

4. The cupola of Glasgow’s Holmwood House

5. Edinburgh Castle, above Princes Street Gardens

6. Mons Meg, one of the world’s oldest large cannons

7. The Camera Obscura seen from the north

8. View of the Royal Mile looking eastward

9. The interior of St. Giles, 1948

10. Old lodging houses in the Cowgate, 1912

11. The Museum of Edinburgh, with Huntly House

12. Bronze statue of the poet Robert Fergusson

13. The Scottish Poetry Library

14. The Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse

15. The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood

16. The Scott Monument, in Princes Street Gardens

17. Masons carving the Scott Monument, 1840s

18. The National Gallery and the Royal Scottish Academy

19. Foyer of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

20. Charlotte Square, with the Albert Memorial

21. Sculpture of Isaac Newton, by Eduardo Paolozzi

22. Landform by Charles Jencks and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

23. Calton Hill, with National Monument

24. The Royal Botanic Garden at Inverleith

25. The port of Leith, 1829

26. Old College quadrangle, Edinburgh University

27. Dr. Robert Knox, 1840s

28. Greyfriars Kirkyard

29. The National Museum of Scotland

30. George Square, with the City Chambers

31. John Maclean, icon of “Red Clydeside,” 1918

32. David Kirkwood and police, George Square, 1919

33. Glasgow Cathedral, 1935

34. Provand’s Lordship, the oldest house in Glasgow

35. The Victorian gates to the Necropolis

36. The Tolbooth Steeple, at Glasgow Cross

37. The Doulton Fountain and the People’s Palace

38. A Gorbals back lane, 1948

39. The Citizens Theatre, in the heart of the Gorbals

40. The Gallery of Modern Art, Queen Street

41. The lower part of Buchanan Street

42. The Argyle Arcade, Scotland’s oldest covered mall

43. Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

44. Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art

45. Tenement photograph by Thomas Annan, 1868

46. Historic taverns, by Jessie M. King, 1911

47. The Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum

48. The main building of Glasgow University

49. The Kibble Palace, in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens

50. The Smith family home, Blythswood Square

51. Holmwood House, designed by Alexander Thomson

52. The River Clyde in 1955

53. The Finnieston Crane, on the River Clyde

54. The Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid

55–59. The Falkirk Wheel in action