For comparison
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Energy, water and waste flow through an integrated ‘closed-loop system’: biogas from the sewage plant heats homes; waste heat from a data centre feeds the district energy network.
The tram line was running before the first residents arrived - not promised for a future phase or subject to a funding review, but operational on day one.
Buildings vary in architecture and expression, but a design framework - consistently enforced - keeps them coherent without making them uniform. The parks and waterways are structural elements of the layout, not afterthoughts fitted around the blocks.
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https://www.buildedinburgh.com/p/saturday-column-building-for-the
Not just Granton of course
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Consider the speculative house-building at Western Harbour, before the global ‘financial collapse’ in 2008.
There was a masterplan, a development company was established, the ambitions - mixed uses, high-density urbanism, excellent public realm, sustainable transport - were clearly stated.
But witness today the blocks of flats, many of them discoloured by the salty sea air, along with the cheerless spaces between them, filled to bursting with cars.
Whenever there is a gap between aspiration and delivery, not only is it rarely acknowledged but no-one is ever asked to explain why.
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Easy to say ThisIsEdinburgh, but more ThisIsUK - or just the ‘international money’ world
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