About the Author

Michael Carley was previously a Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He has had six books published during his career. Robert Dalziel is an architect who, for over twenty years, was a main board director of Reid Architecture (now 3DReid). Pat Dargan has been an architect and planner for twenty years. He recently retired as a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He lives between County Wicklow in Ireland and London. Simon Laird is an architect in private practice in Edinburgh. He focuses on accommodating new uses within existing buildings, a phenomenon that could be said to define the history of New Town.