... the Second New Town contained more crescents. This was extremely useful also, when I decided to investigate the influence of the, "educated men," in Edinburgh at that time, to see, for example, if Lord Cockburn's rather uncomplimentary observation of the First New Town was a catalyst for change. The television documentaries, unfortunately, did not really stimulate or inspire me in the way which I had hoped. I felt that they were very much created to rake in viewers rather than inform me accurately of the New Town's history and architectural structure, including change between the First and Second New Town's styles through narration. The images produced on the documentaries were marginally useful in the way that they could be used as evidence to show the difference in road layouts. I felt sorry that the programmes were so uncomplimentary of the First New Town, and that they seemed biased towards mentioning how ...

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