A new BID and the vulnerable Underbelly of the Old Town
The Citizen Network
Old Town resident Janet Dick on the nightime build for Underbelly’s Light Night and the ongoing crisis of…
Tourism and the Paradox of Plenty
By Sean Bradley, book editor, publisher and trustee of Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust. | ‘Tourism’ may soon…
Reflections on “The Problem of Rent”
By David Hanson – Living Rent Glasgow. The great classical economic thinkers of the 18th and 19th century…
Crowded Out – Scotland’s Over Tourism Problem
The crisis of over-tourism has arrived in Edinburgh with vested interests too slow and compromised to respond. Hyper-defensiveness,…
Banging the Drum – Leith Depot and the Resistible Rise of Stead’s Place
This article by Neil Cooper was first published in Bella Caledonia in March 2019, and is reproduced with…
Paying People Properly Will Ruin the Festival says Fringe Boss
By Mike Small The sound of the world’s tiniest violins was heard across the capital yesterday as Shona…
Artwash, Over-Tourism and Edinburgh
By Mike Small The image of Edinburgh’s central park – Princes Street Gardens – blacked out and blocked…
The Disneyfication of Edinburgh
By Mike Small Gordon Robertson, chair of Marketing Edinburgh, elected by nobody, has called for the “Disneyfication of…
Common Good Food
Common Good Food is a practical advocate of food sovereignty in Scotland. We believe that everyone has “the…
Fair Fringe
A campaign to improve the wages and working conditions of Fringe staff alongside the people who work it…
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