Doors Open Weekend
This years Door’s Open weekend is upon us with venues closed to the public, opening their doors this weekend so you can have a sneaky look around. The event website ...
Essential Edinburgh cleans up again
This says a lot about the state of the relationship between Edinburgh City Centre and the divergent needs of the business community making money from the Festival Fringe. A beautiful ...
Edinburgh, Planning, Scottish Government
Our land Scotland event
As part of Our Land a series of events, I attended an event on Sunday 28th August, about gentrification and the effects of the tourist industry on the city of Edinburgh. ...
Urban Activism where is Edinburgh’s Jane Jacobs?
Jane Jacobs, was best know for her activism in New York, over Urban planning and her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). The book argues that the new ‘urban ...
Bus site realigned!
Well done to Living Streets, Edinburgh – with many of the new bus stops around the City being placed wrongly, so that wheelchairs couldn’t get around them. Slowly these are ...
Bring on the music!
The A-listed old Royal High School, designed by Thomas Hamilton, (opened in 1829 – empty since 1968) – on Carlton Hill Edinburgh has been recommend by Council Officers to be turned ...
An Edinburgh August
August in Edinburgh can be love it or hate it for the people that live in the city centre – year in year out. Between the Fringe Festival, the International ...