Docks, Railways or Institutions: Competing Images for Mid-Nineteenth Century Dundee

TY - CHAP

T1 - Docks, Railways or Institutions

T2 - Competing Images for Mid-Nineteenth Century Dundee

AU - Duck, Rob

AU - McKean, Charles

PY - 2011/11

Y1 - 2011/11

N2 - Dundee became an industrial city during the nineteenth century. Although still dependent on its ever-expanding harbour, it was no longer merely a seaport or entrepôt but a major manufacturing centre, the industries of which lay in a virtually impenetrable semi-circle around the medieval core. This chapter examines how significant elements of Dundee society hoped to represent and symbolise this confident and modern city along the waterfront, against others who sought to create that symbol up on the plateau on the largely empty Meadowlands lying to the north of the ancient centre. The ambitions of the former were vitiated by predatory and ruthless railway companies, and those of the latter by civic indecision and poor foundation conditions.

AB - Dundee became an industrial city during the nineteenth century. Although still dependent on its ever-expanding harbour, it was no longer merely a seaport or entrepôt but a major manufacturing centre, the industries of which lay in a virtually impenetrable semi-circle around the medieval core. This chapter examines how significant elements of Dundee society hoped to represent and symbolise this confident and modern city along the waterfront, against others who sought to create that symbol up on the plateau on the largely empty Meadowlands lying to the north of the ancient centre. The ambitions of the former were vitiated by predatory and ruthless railway companies, and those of the latter by civic indecision and poor foundation conditions.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85210347666

U2 - 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860912.003.0008

DO - 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860912.003.0008

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781845860912

SP - 151

EP - 172

BT - Victorian Dundee

A2 - Whatley, Christopher A.

A2 - Harris, Bob

A2 - Miskell, Louise

PB - Edinburgh University Press

ER -