George Kerevan: Time to inject daring design into Scottish capital

HAVE you ever been to New Jersey? It's that big shopping mall and housing estate on the other side of the Hudson River from Manhattan. Actually, there are some nice bits to the state of New Jersey, but most of it is now covered in a uniform concrete sprawl that is the urban equivalent of a rhododendron bush – ever growing and gobbling up everything in its path.

I mention this because Scotland (and especially Edinburgh) is going the same way.

The one redeeming feature that a bust economic boom normally leaves behind is a legacy of adventurous and sometimes great architecture. When money is cheap and egos ...