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"People are invited to contribute through the ­Edinburgh 2050 webpage"

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  1. chdot
    Admin

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    A draft vision is due to be drawn up by Christmas and then refined before next ­summer.

    People are invited to contribute through the ­Edinburgh 2050 webpage http://edinburgh.org/2050-edinburgh-city-vision

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    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/teenagers-set-out-their-2050-vision-for-the-capital-1-4242529

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. Coxy
    Member

    Now it’s your turn to have your say, and help all our youngsters – especially - to do the same, right across the City.

    We want to encompass the diverse needs of the city, ensuring it continues to thrive as a great place to live, work and visit over the next 30 years.

    A city-wide engagement campaign will run until December, inviting all other interested parties to share their vision for the future and unlock creative potential for collaboration across all sectors. A draft document will be produced based on the responses received before being refined, agreed and published next summer.

    Anyone who lives, works or studies in the city can join the conversation by answering the following three questions at the Edinburgh 2050 webpage and on social media (@edinburgh) using #Edinburgh2050.

    What’s great about Edinburgh?
    What could be better?
    What would you like Edinburgh to be like in 2050?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. Coxy
    Member

    That's a quote from the bumf. Not me.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. ih
    Member

    That's 34 years away. I would be more inclined to contribute if we were being asked for our vision in 5, 10, 15 years. A 34 year vision gives no one in power any incentive to do anything about it because they will be gone, either professionally or mortally.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. cc
    Member

    Yes. 2050 is just silly :-) e.g.

    By 2050 I expect there will be a dense network of vacuum tubes under the city - what the heck, under the whole country and underwater to beyond too - providing swift automatic transportation for people and goods from anywhere to anywhere else. And of course the sky will be thick with automated peaceful non-crashing drones and flying delivery pods of of all sorts. (They sound more futuristic if you call them "pods".)

    Most shops will have been repurposed as hotels, loft apartments, party spaces, vegetable gardens and/or mini power stations. Much of the current excess of tarmac will have been replaced or swallowed by wooded glades full of birds and other wildlife. Colonies of wolves and bears will roam the city. They will have been gently modified to make them unable to perceive or attack humans or domesticated animals, except for the purpose of avoiding collisions, and not using my house as their den.

    Or maybe humanity will be extinct and the only intelligent life left will be the former occupants' toasters and central heating systems, waiting patiently, poignantly for their human charges to return, while grass and trees rapidly reclaim the bungalows and the motorways and the schools and the supermarkets.

    Or the city will be in almost permanent darkness, with a few huddled survivors practising martial arts in photogenic warehouses while vampires/zombies/triffids/giant chickens roam the streets.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. Arellcat
    Moderator

    That's 34 years away.

    34 years ago if you'd asked me what I thought Edinburgh might be like in 34 years' time, I would probably have said 'I think there'll be flying cars and circular houses on stilts' and 'will the Dark Place still be there?'

    In 34 years' time, Edinburgh will still be full of potholes, questionable architecture, and politics will still result in a glacial pace of improvement. The pessimist in me suspects that people will still be driving cars, albeit mainly electric and some hydrogen. I think that humanity is fundamentally so lazy that not all that much will have changed.

    However, cc's vision of the future is much more exciting.

    It's probably hard to overestimate the power of computing in 2050 and what that will have led to. 34 years ago, an iPhone was a telephone attached to the wall, an Ansaphone with the fiddly tape, a Filofax, a desk calendar, a dictaphone, a posh SLR camera, a Betamax video camera, an Atari 2600, an HP-15 calculator, a portable television set, a spirit level, a Met Office supercomputer, a copy of the Yellow Pages covering every business everywhere in the world, an OS 1:25000 map of everywhere in the world including the entire night sky, a compass and a record player.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. neddie
    Member

    In the post-apocalyptic world of 2050, an android clone of Donald Trump controls the scattered remains of above-ground Edinburgh. All the stone- and brick-built buildings that weren't flattened by nuclear blasts have been destroyed after frequent earthquakes caused by desperate attempts to frack-out the last remaining oil. A few tin sheds (former B&Qs) are all that remain.

    Donald Trump who rose to power in 2016, achieved world domination by the end of the decade. But not before unleashing full blown thermo-nuclear war. Realising that without the internet, communication would be difficult, Trump cloned himself the world over to keep control over the remaining pockets of civilisation.

    The remnants of intelligent people ("intely-gunts") have moved underground into tunnels. They trade, share knowledge and form communities by means of the bicycle.

    Those remaining above ground have bred incessantly, with grunt, muscle-power and low intelligence the primary sex selection criteria. If they ever see an "intely-gunt", they will seek out and kill it. They live in overcrowded colonies, named "B&Qs" and divided into 'hutches' inside the giant tin sheds. They know not how to recreate the machines they once knew, but they are able to cobble together the broken pieces of the machines to form rudimentary transport so they can rampage and pillage other B&Q colonies.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. chdot
    Admin

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    Caroline Young, PR and content executive at ESPC, told the News why Edinburgh remains a desirable city to live in.

    She said: “Edinburgh is the financial and political centre of Scotland, and has also made gains in becoming a centre for technology, with Amazon and Skyscanner both located here, so these well-paid jobs are an attractive prospect and therefore drive up demand for property, thus increasing selling prices.

    “Edinburgh also has a large share of Scotland’s top private schools, and so properties near to those areas drive up prices, as does the desirability of Georgian properties in the New Town, which is a world heritage area.”

    Councillor Jason Rust, who represents Fairmilehead and Swanston, said he wasn’t surprised two of his wards were named within the highest value areas.

    He said: “I am not surprised by the figures given the beautiful location beneath the Pentland Hills whereby residents can have the best of both urban and rural environments.

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    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/average-house-price-in-49-edinburgh-streets-is-over-1m-1-4244835

    Posted 7 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The last chapter of Alasdair Gray's 'Why Scots Should Rule Scotland' is a vision of the country in around 2050. He's sleeping rough, hiding from gangs of feral adolescents while an elite class live in luxury, each of their houses guarded by a 'stainless steel cockroach the size of a kitten' that hides under the furniture, scuttling forth to despatch any intruders.

    My vision for 2051 is that the kitroach realises it no longer needs its master and property prices in Fairmilehead PLUMMET by 100%.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    I won a school prize in primary school, a book from McDonald and sprout bookshop Paisley, probably about animals. For an essay lochwinnoch in the year 2000. We all lived on see through pods floating on the loch.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  11. Min
    Member

    the only intelligent life left will be the former occupants' toasters and central heating systems, waiting patiently, poignantly for their human charges to return,

    One day there WILL be small lemon-soaked paper napkins.

    I foresee a city made entirely of hotels, luxury apartments and student battery farms. Streets are so choked with parked cars that no-one can drive anywhere but it doesn't stop them trying, driving forward a few inches at a time and screaming abuse at everyone else for being in the way. Oh no wait, that's now.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  12. Stickman
    Member

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/cameron-rose-keep-road-map-to-2050-rooted-in-reality-1-4247234

    Cameron Rose:


    And I’d also suggest that most people will expect that in 2050 there will be a transport system which works with minimal congestion and gets them from A to B without fuss. With current problems there is a reasonable likelihood of transport remaining a key issue in 33 years’ time unless a new approach is taken.

    Is Cameron suggesting "moar kars" isn't working?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  13. neddie
    Member

    There is now an "Edinburgh City Vision" site where you can put [transport] ideas forward, or vote on existing ideas - I'd say it's worth voting on the good ideas and "down voting" the bad ideas, just like any of the other consultations:

    https://edinburgh2050.dialogue-app.com/transport/home?sort_order=rated

    We want you to tell us...

    What is great about transport in Edinburgh?
    What could be better about transport in Edinburgh?
    What should transport in Edinburgh look like in 2050?
    You can also rate any of the ideas below to tell us how important they are from one-star (not at all important) to five-stars (very important).

    Posted 7 years ago #
  14. HankChief
    Member

    http://edinburgh.org/blog/daisy-narayanan-edinburgh-2050/

    Even today, thirteen years later, I find new corners and streets that surprise me and reinforce everything I love about Edinburgh.

    And to me, this is where the magic of Edinburgh lies - in the joy of discovery of new, interesting places by being willing to explore Edinburgh at a human scale, on foot or by bicycle. By 2050, my dream is for the city to change the way it functions, to provide better choices for people to move around and become the most liveable city in Europe.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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