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Part of the Old Edinburgh School Of Art in Ramsay Lane, on the corner of Castlehill , Geddes converted the building into the Outlook Tower with its Camera Obscura and mounted his Civic Survey of Edinburgh exhibition. Patrick Geddes was a committed believer in the exhibition as a vehicle of education. The exhibition though constructed and opened to the public, was relatively short-lived and never completed. It is nowadays open to the public with an exhibition of Geddes' work, various scientific galleries, holograms and pin-hole photography. On top of the tower the camera obscura is still in use to project a 'virtual' tour of the city for visitors. The concept of Outlook Tower was tried elsewhere. With 70 years old Patrick Geddes moved to Montpellier , France where he bought land on a hill with a view over the city, built a house and incorporated another Outlook Tower. The house became the Scots College ( College Des Ecossais ). REFERENCES |
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