GREATER EDINBURGH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 6

GREATER EDINBURGH.

A PEEP INTO THE FuTUKE. Professor Gcddes lccltrcd in 'Edin- | burgh recently on tho possibilities of Greater Edinburgh—Mr. W. B. Blaikio | presiding. Tho lecture was in connection, with tho Town Planning Exhibition, mid was largely attended. Professor Gcddes said that the proximity of Edinburgh to the coalfields of East Lothian and to the sea offered great possibilities, and now that the age of •electricity had arrived, ho foreshadowed the time when electrical force would be generated at the. mine itself, and, the cable tako the. place of (he coal train. There would follow garden habitations for (he coal workers in place of their present wretched housing conditions. With regard to Edinburgh's futura upon the sea, lie said that far above Kosyth in importance was die Forth and Clyde Canal. The great circle of navigation from Hamburg to New York • passed through their Scottish isthmus, itself & sufficient, argument for cutting through it a Forth and Clyde Canal. Next imagine the growth of industry and population along this canal. This should obviously be far greater than that along the Ship Canal of Manchester, and with this must be developed, since they had done with slums, a long chain of garden villages, and towns linking.up Edinburgh and Glasgow into a vast bi-polnr.cnpital, one-of the vastest as well as best-situated cities of the world, with its population of millions. This region already includ< ed the bulk of the population of Scotland —well-nigh three millions out of five. Thus their old, age-long rivalry of Edinburgh with the great. Loudon itself must again be renewed, albeit happily, henceforth upon n happier and more peaceful spiral. •