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The citizen network is a coalition of people working to re-imagine the city as a place for people to live in, one of social justice and equality, not just a space for consumption and profit. Through its Manifesto for the City Citizen will promote community-led development to defend the city against unwelcome development, privatisation and over-tourism.
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A new BID and the vulnerable Underbelly of the Old Town

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  • November 12, 2019
Old Town resident Janet Dick on the nightime build for Underbelly’s Light Night and the ongoing crisis of…
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Tourism and the Paradox of Plenty

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  • March 26, 2019
By Sean Bradley, book editor, publisher and trustee of Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust. | ‘Tourism’ may soon…
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Reflections on “The Problem of Rent”

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  • March 26, 2019
By David Hanson – Living Rent Glasgow. The great classical economic thinkers of the 18th and 19th century…
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Crowded Out – Scotland’s Over Tourism Problem

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  • March 25, 2019
The crisis of over-tourism has arrived in Edinburgh with vested interests too slow and compromised to respond. Hyper-defensiveness,…
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Banging the Drum – Leith Depot and the Resistible Rise of Stead’s Place

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  • March 25, 2019
This article by Neil Cooper was first published in Bella Caledonia in March 2019, and is reproduced with…
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Paying People Properly Will Ruin the Festival says Fringe Boss

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  • March 25, 2019
By Mike Small The sound of the world’s tiniest violins was heard across the capital yesterday as Shona…
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Artwash, Over-Tourism and Edinburgh

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  • March 25, 2019
By Mike Small The image of Edinburgh’s central park – Princes Street Gardens – blacked out and blocked…
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The Disneyfication of Edinburgh

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  • March 25, 2019
By Mike Small Gordon Robertson, chair of Marketing Edinburgh, elected by nobody, has called for the “Disneyfication of…
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Common Good Food

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  • March 24, 2019
Common Good Food is a practical advocate of food sovereignty in Scotland. We believe that everyone has “the…
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Fair Fringe

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  • March 24, 2019
A campaign to improve the wages and working conditions of Fringe staff alongside the people who work it…
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