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The People’s Occupation: no more cuts

March 7, 2021 by Mike Cowley 1 Comment

No more cuts, an Edinburgh demonstration

As the post-Covid reckoning approaches, who is going to ‘own’ the rebuilding of services, community capacity and employment to which both UK and Scottish governments are formally committed? 

Winners and losers on #MoultriesHill Part 3

September 5, 2019 by George Rosie 3 Comments

Demolishing St James Square – dramatic image of destruction

Updated: Having won a battle that they should have lost (over the hotel), the bosses of Edinburgh St James are now engaged in one they should lose…but eventiually reached a settlement instead.

New Brutalism in St James Square: #MoultriesHill Part 2

September 2, 2019 by George Rosie 1 Comment

The former New St Andrew House. The gaunt, grey brutalist look of the 1960s

Enough was enough. The cost and the disruption were too much. It made more sense to build the new Scottish Office elsewhere and leave the old gaunt, grey building to the pigeons.

The tangled history of Edinburgh St James

August 30, 2019 by George Rosie 7 Comments

Red hoardings promise regeneration at Edinburgh St James

‘So St. James Square remained the province of a handful of small businesses and workshops and 3,700 or so of Edinburgh’s lower orders and their exploitative, ever-neglectful landlords. The long decline of James Craig’s tenement buildings continued. Rack followed ruin and ruin begat rack.’

Regeneration: promise or threat to city vitality?

February 11, 2018 by Fay Young Leave a Comment

A poster at the construction site of of Edinburgh's East End redevelopment:

‘How often are citizens actively included in the decision-making? For Haringey, read those parts of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and every other vibrant city that attracts the developers’ eye’. Fay Young on the key urban question: how can people reclaim the city landscape?

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