The Outlook Tower, Edinburgh

Spatial sequence diagrams of Edinburgh Outlook Tower.
From the bustle of the Royal Mile to the darkness and introversion of the Camera Obscura.

"From the hard World of Facts to the no less real World of Acts, you can only travel by this "In-World way."

Geddes P., Cities In Evolution, 1915, pg 208

The spatial introversion of the camera obscura represented a threshold into Geddes' "In-world". From this height one can survey the city of Edinburgh from the "Out-world" and immediately afterwards, by entering the dark space, see it from the introverted perspective of the Obscura, i.e. the "In-world".

Geddes used the tower as an educational tool, as a way of showing new perspectives on the city, its hinterland and how these sat in the wider contexts of the Commonwealth and the World.