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‘This thought-provoking study will be invaluable for those looking to understand the idea of monumentality, both within and beyond a Scottish context, and will invite further examinations of the relationship between commemoration, identity and the urban’ Dr. Kristen Carter McKee, University of Edinburgh, UK. ‘This is a pioneering study, replete with new thinking and fizzing with provocation.’ Ray McKenzie, The Architects’ Journal, UK. ’A contribution not only to architectural history but also to describing the deeper aesthetic self-conception of nationality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scotland. The layers of civic, historic and literary consciousness essayed in this book make it a bold new landmark in the explanation of Scotland's monumentality.’ Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow, UK'The last major structure to feature in Rodger’s excellent and original survey is Robert Lorimer’s Scottish National War Memorial (opened in 1927) at Edinburgh Castle, the scale and design of which evoked protracted opposition at the time, including from the Cockburn Association. As The Hero Building relates, negotiation included the advice that ‘Any building on Edinburgh Castle should not be in a definite style either Gothic or Classic but that it should be rugged, rigorous, and depending for its effect not on fine details, but on mass light and shade’. Not bad for advice proffered early in the design stage!'- Dennis Rodwell, architect-planner, consultant in cultural heritage and sustainable urban development, Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation

'A contribution not only to architectural history but also to describing the deeper aesthetic self-conception of nationality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scotland. The layers of civic, historic and literary consciousness essayed in this book make it a bold new landmark in the explanation of Scotland's monumentality.' Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow, UK

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Johnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art. His published work includes fiction such as The Auricle (1995) and Redundant (1998) and critical volumes like Contemporary Glasgow (Rutland Press, 1999), Gillespie Kidd & Coia 1956-87 (RIAS, 2007), Tartan Pimps: Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher and the New Scotland (2010), and The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment (2011).

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