Book Launch: Who Runs Edinburgh?
Venue
Violet Laidlaw Room (6th Floor)Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Description
Edinburgh University Press, Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and Scottish Affairs are pleased to invite you to the launch of eminent sociologist David McCrone's timely book Who Runs Edinburgh?
Come along to raise a glass, and hear some spirited discussion about the city, and purchase his book at the special discount price of just £10.
About Who Runs Edinburgh?:
Who runs Edinburgh? A global city by reputation, cultural claim and marketing, Edinburgh’s power structure is largely opaque. David McCrone, emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, unpacks Edinburgh’s modern story: its politics; political economy; and the rise and rise of its status as Festival city. McCrone illuminates a complex system of money and culture, of presumed social status tied into a hierarchy of schools and institutions, universities, banks and finance houses. Who Runs Edinburgh? examines planning controversies: post-war developments; ‘holes in the ground’; The Trams.
Studying Edinburgh lets us draw lessons about cities in general, and their roles in the modern world.