Festival Streets: Can Edinburgh Work for Everyone This Summer

POSTED ON July 9, 2026 BY James Garry

Edinburgh’s Festival streets should remain inclusive, accessible and liveable for everyone

Edinburgh’s Festival streets should remain inclusive, accessible and liveable for everyone

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How Should Edinburgh Look in 2040? Why Your Voice Matters Now

POSTED ON July 3, 2026 BY James Garry

Help shape Edinburgh’s future: your ideas today will influence the city’s 2040 vision

Help shape Edinburgh’s future: your ideas today will influence the city’s 2040 vision

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From 1976 to Today: Edinburgh’s Heatwaves and the Need to Adapt

POSTED ON June 25, 2026 BY James Garry

Greener streets, cooler buildings, stronger communities for a warmer Edinburgh

Greener streets, cooler buildings, stronger communities for a warmer Edinburgh

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Data Centres, Green Claims and Edinburgh’s Western Edge

POSTED ON June 19, 2026 BY James Garry

Data centres are coming. The planning questions cannot wait.

Data centres are coming. The planning questions cannot wait.

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Open Doors, Open Stories: Might you be able to help unlock Scotland this September?

POSTED ON June 17, 2026 BY James Garry

Discover hidden places, shared stories and new perspectives this September

Discover hidden places, shared stories and new perspectives this September

Doors Open Day 2026

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Edinburgh’s Next Chapter, shaped by civic voices

POSTED ON June 12, 2026 BY James Garry

Edinburgh’s next chapter, shaped by civic voices and shared ambition

Edinburgh’s next chapter, shaped by civic voices and shared ambition

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Open Doors, Open Stories: Might you be able to help unlock Scotland this September?

POSTED ON June 5, 2026 BY James Garry

Discover hidden places, shared stories and new perspectives this September

Discover hidden places, shared stories and new perspectives this September

Doors Open Day 2026

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Future global leaders experience Edinburgh with the Cockburn Association

POSTED ON May 29, 2026

Exploring Edinburgh’s public realm through the eyes of students

Exploring Edinburgh’s public realm through the eyes of students

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Building for the Future We Say We Want

POSTED ON May 22, 2026 BY James Garry

Hammarby Sjöstad: on closing the gap between what plans say and what buildings deliver

Hammarby Sjöstad: on closing the gap between what plans say and what buildings deliver

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Housing as Civic Architecture Vienna: on what a city says about itself when it builds homes for ordinary people

POSTED ON May 15, 2026 BY James Garry

The Karl-Marx-Hof on Vienna’s Heiligenstädter Strasse is hard to miss. Completed in 1930, it stretches for more than a kilometre, rises to six storeys, and announces itself with an entrance archway of palace-like scale. It housed 1,382 working-class families. It was built, quite deliberately, to make a statement: that the quality of homes provided to ordinary people is a measure …

The Karl-Marx-Hof on Vienna’s Heiligenstädter Strasse is hard to miss. Completed in 1930, it stretches for more than a kilometre, rises to six storeys, and announces itself with an entrance archway of palace-like scale. It housed 1,382 working-class families. It was built, quite deliberately, to make a statement: that the quality of homes provided to ordinary people is a measure …

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