4. TAKE AN ARCHITECT-LED CITY TOUR

Few understand our greatest cities better than those tasked with designing them. The architect team behind Cobble Tales have created a series of audio guides tracing Edinburgh’s Old Town, New Town and Dean Village. The former takes in everything from the Le Corbusier-influenced National Museum of Scotland to Richard Murphy’s RIBA award-winning home (cobbletales.com). Tour network Guiding Architects connects practices with adventurous pedestrians from Rio to Rotterdam, and Glasgow firm Dressed for the Weather will show you a ‘crosssection’ of their home city (guiding-architects.net). In London, look to Open City (open-city.org.uk) and The Architecture Foundation (architecture foundation.org.uk) for visits to landmark projects.