Klappentext:
Sets out to trace many of the lost buildings of Scotland's capital city and find out why they were doomed. This illustrated book offers an insight into an ever-changing cityscape.

Autorentext:
Hamish Coghill is Edinburgh born and bred, spending more than 40 years as a journalist on the city's evening newspaper. He has written extensively about his city, and also lectures regularly on its history and development. A member of the Old Edinburgh Club, Honorary President of the Currie and District Local History Society and an avid recorder of the changing local scene in photographs for his personal interest, he is very much an Edinburgh bairn.