A Revitalised City is Possible – Let’s Get Beyond Ourselves
The Citizen Network
By Sean Bradley There is no better time for the citizens of Edinburgh to pitch in and contribute…
Urgent call to help protect our City Green Space, Princes Street Gardens
Princes Street Gardens – no more business as usual! This is an appeal for concerned residents of Edinburgh…
Nostalgia Doesn’t Create Good Policy
CITIZEN from Bella Caledonia on Vimeo.
Airbnb the Fightback
From our first meeting of the year, Airbnb, Fightback…
A new BID and the vulnerable Underbelly of the Old Town
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…
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