As I was reminded recently Glaschu mean Dear Family whereas Dun Eideann simply refers to a rock.
In any case it is not aesthetics but community that we should be looking at.
The affable fringe performer Morningside Malcom does an excellent parody on the difference between the two. Edinburgh is about image above all where Glasgow is about community,
You just have to walk down Sauchiehall Street to feel that you are a part of something whereas the exploded cultures that the prominent Jewish pedagogue Reuven Feurstien described come to mind in Morningide, let alone Craigmillar.
At least when you get off a bus in Detroit you feel like something is going to happen.
As a Scotsman my heart swells when I walk into the ground floor of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Seeing white marble busts of Fisherman's sons and other working class enlightenment heros who became philosophers, inventors, theologians and doctors typifies what this city, and as such this country, was once all about.
But as typified by the dilapitaded state of not only Adam Smith's hidden Grave at the Tolbooth but those other enlightenment polymaths on Calton Hill the last thing of any use that we gave the World was the first troops accross the Rhine.
We have completely lost any sense of ourselves.
I used to work at the Airport. What are we doing building a tramway when we have a perfectly good bus network? Because we want to be more European? Once upon a time we had a hand in forming this continent (and America to boot)!
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/214502-foreign-policy-magazine-article-says-edinburgh-is-in-abject-decline/
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