URBAN CASE STUDY

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URBAN CASE STUDY

• EDINBURGH
• Zones and Regeneration

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You have to add detailed annotations to eight
sketches.
The aims of the exercise are to
help you visualise different parts of Edinburgh
help you to know important urban details
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Edinburgh The CBD Princes Street Rose St
George Street Lothian Road
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The Central Business District

• CBD is bisected by the Castle and Princes St
  Gardens, and there are planning restrictions
  which ensure that the historic nature of
  Edinburgh is conserved.
• The main streets business/ shopping streets are
  Princes Street and George Street, which run east
  to west, and the adjoining streets.

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The Central Business District
First developed around the oldest part of
Edinburgh the Castle area, and later expanded
onto Princes Street when the Norloch was drained
and the New Town was built. Now includes George
Street and the joining streets.
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The Central Business District
Highest land values so high order services e.g.
GAP, Jenners, financial and law institutions.
High land values so buildings grow upwards
Maximum accessibility for workers AND customers
roads and railways converge e.g. Waverley
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The Central Business District
Also entertainments e.g. Rose Street bars and
restaurants. Pedestrianised area.
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The Central Business District
Financial institutions e.g. Standard Life
headquarters
Law institutions e.g. Edinburgh Solicitors
Property Centre
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Recent Changes in The CBD

• 1. Closed streets within the CBD and
  pedestrianisation e.g. Rose Street
• Altered road network to include one way system,
  bus/taxi
• lanes and cycle lanes e.g. Charlotte Square,
  Queen Street, Princes Street
• 3. Modernised city centre shops, including new
  shopping malls e.g. Harvey Nichols store,
  Waverley Centre
• 4. New offices, apartments, and hotels and
  conference centres e.g. Edinburgh International
  Conference Centre (EICC), Sheraton Hotel, The
  Scotsman newspaper offices
• 5. Renovated tourist facilities and cultural
  attractions e.g. National Gallery of Scotland,
  Dynamic Earth exhibition
• 6. Refurbished or new civic buildings e.g.
  Scottish Parliament on Holyrood Road
• 7. Multi-storey car parks adjacent to shopping
  malls e.g. St James Centre

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Edinburgh The New Town Northumberland St Queen
St Stockbridge
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Edinburgh The New Town
Very distinctive, planned, pattern of residential
crescents and rectangles separated by private
gardens
Photograph by permission of GetMapping plc
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Edinburgh The New Town
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Edinburgh The New Town
some poorer buildings (built originally by
speculative developers) have been renovated or
re-developed
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Edinburgh The New Town
mews areas nearby originally for stables etc
now desirable small houses
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Edinburgh The New Town
basements and ground floor may now contain
restaurants, small offices or specialist retail
outlets e.g. Alpine Bikes in Stockbridge
customers have high levels of disposable income
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Edinburgh The New Town
large houses may be turned into flats (must
conform to strict planning controls)
highly desirable properties, therefore well
maintained
wide streets of original cobbles provide parking
(often nose to footpath)
close to city centre theatres, restaurants etc
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Edinburgh The New Town
Photograph by permission of GetMapping plc
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Edinburgh Assimilation of the Inner City into the
CBD now part of the CBD
Eg Fountainbridge Gorgie and Dalry
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Edinburgh Inner City - assimilation into the CBD
re-development of brown field sites is common -
often were industrial
replaced by various land uses residential,
commercial, retail, leisure
Fountain Park Leisure Complex has multiplex
cinema, bowling, McDonalds etc
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Edinburgh Inner City - assimilation into the CBD
Photograph by permission of GetMapping plc
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Edinburgh Inner City - assimilation into the CBD
sites near the Union Canal have potential as high
quality residential or office space
Edinburgh Quays (beside Union Canal) (Phase 1
complete 2004) will provide apartments, offices,
restaurants
The Exchange finance related offices with
high levels of ICT provision
This photo Scottish Widows Bank HQ
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Edinburgh Inner City - assimilation into the CBD
Photograph by permission of GetMapping plc