Georgian tenements in Gardner’s Crescent, Edinburgh
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How Edinburgh Tenements Became an Urban Housing Blueprint
The Scottish capital's signature stacked apartments are a window into Edinburgh's political and geographic history. They remain wildly popular today.
(This article is part of Bloomberg CityLab’s series exploring the iconic home designs that shaped global cities. Read more from the series. Get the next story sent to your inbox by subscribing to the CityLab Daily newsletter.)
When it comes to urban homes, things change sharply at the border between Scotland and England. While the cities of Scotland’s southern neighbor have through most of their history built houses, urban Scots have always tended to live in apartments like their continental European neighbors.