Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site Community Map Discover the Old and New Towns through the community’s eyes. We asked the community what they thought A City for Kids Edinburgh by Night …through its favourite and The Castle and the Sea …and through its of Edinburgh and here are the results. From a child’s perspective, Pubs are one of Edinburgh’s People are fond of the streets are very large favourite places. People enjoy least favourite elements… Edinburgh’s views and intangible heritage with grey asphalt and a the smell of beer (see Section landscapes, such as the Discover Edinburgh and its World dashed yellow line painted 16) and live music. Students Favourite Old Town skyline, Arthur’s Smells Heritage Site through its stories… in the middle. The kids who love the pubs and bars of the Green Seat and Calton Hill. Two Edinburgh Community Map were involved in the project Cowgate and Infirmary Street, Spaces views in particular make includes many sensory loved historic buildings and whilst workers prefer Broughton Green the city unique for its memories. Ann Marie loves the especially the Castle. They Street and its lively nightlife. inhabitants: the Castle Personal Edinburgh spaces are smell of cigarettes and beer in liked “the smell from the The Royal Mile is a favourite view, because “no matter Edinburgh is not only full of the best- pubs, because “it reminds her of café”, sweets shops, green spaces and “fresh air”; they location for traditional-style where you are, you can see Edinburgh Castle from history, art and architecture, loved spots her childhood”. Someone else disliked “bins and the smell of litter” and “busy roads”. pubs, though sometimes everywhere”, and the sea view northward towards Fife, but also people’s personal in Edinburgh. loves the smell of candles in St Some children mentioned hospitals as that is where Edinburgh’s nightlife can be and eastward towards Musselburgh. places. The Community Students Mary’s Cathedral, while Anna likes “sick people are helped”, and others loved the smell “noisy and annoying”! Map highlights the favourite love the the smells in Stockbridge Sunday from the petrol station. Perhaps unexpectedly, the school Dislikes locations, daily routines and Meadows, Market: curry, herbs, fresh fish, is always drawn as a positive element on the map. People as Landmarks The Community Mapping activities of Edinburgh’s local communities. See if you children love and coffee. The city also smells of Edinburgh’s Community Project enabled people can spot “my home”, “Thursday’s workplace”, “friends” the Union Canal and people in the City Centre love fish & chips, bakeries and sweet Edinburgh Weather Map is lively and…crowded! to suggest what could place” and “dance classes” landmarks on the map. to relax in Princes Street Gardens. The Water of Leith shops, and kids love them! Edinburgh weather is so Besides including themselves be improved in their city. Sometimes people have even included themselves on Walkway, Arthur’s Seat and Calton Hill are amongst the varied and interesting that on the map (see Section 1), They usually preferred the map (“this is me!”), and whoever else they meet favourite walking routes (see Section 14). Sounds it often features on the participants represented many green spaces to busy along their daily route (see Section 8). Edinburgh is also a city of Community Map. This was individuals, such as the Big Architecture roads, and would rather noises. The sound of bagpipes particularly noticed by the Issue seller on Dundas Street; cycle to work than being Working Edinburgh Edinburgh is a city of contrasts in the city centre is unique, international community, who the “smiley, happy driver” stuck in traffic jams. Edinburgh is a working city, (old and new, dark and bright, even if Jim doesn’t like the included the “strong wind” on on the bus, and the “nice as thousands of people high and low), and this clearly music from tartan shops. It Middle Meadow Walk, rain, man from Syria in the Post Favourite Routes cross its historic centre to emerged from participants’ doesn’t matter where you clouds and “beautiful sunsets Office”. Stories and thoughts Edinburgh offers many reach their workplace. sketches. People see the Old are… the call of seagulls is from North Bridge”. Children, also emerged: “I see a panoramic walks and Checking the clocks along Town as vertical, steep, dark, always around you. Every day in Edinburgh you can instead, have often just drawn homeless person everyday in spectacular views. the way is “crucial to be on winding and narrow where also hear the firing of the One O’Clock Gun from the a smiling, happy sun wearing the Canongate; he is always People love green routes, time”. Many people cycle the magic of the “historic Castle, the bumping of cars on New Town setts, and a sunglasses. smiling, and I wonder what his story is and if one day I’ll especially the Water of to work, and would like ambience” of the Castle and Big Issue seller screaming “big news!!!” say hello to him. What am I afraid of?”. Leith Walkway, through to have improved cycle the Closes comes alive. The Unusual Landmarks the Dean Village and Stockbridge; walking across the paths in the city. New Town is represented as a Memories Many locations on the Everything is Relative! spacious, bright and majestic Meadows, and around Calton Hill and Arthur’s Seat. The Community Map is map are remembered not Distance and orientation are There are urban routes that inhabitants like too: from A Student’s Perspective chessboard. People love the dotted with people’s stories because of their historic a very subjective elements the High Street to Jeffrey Street and Market Street; The area between the elegance of the Georgian and reminiscences. People relevance, but rather when it comes to community Regent Road, Abbeymount and Abbeyhill, admiring Cowgate and the Meadows buildings and the brightness of wrote about their childhoods because people are maps. In many of the the views to Arthur’s Seat; or reaching the Old Town is the hub for student life in the streets and squares. and their daily routines. emotionally attached to participants’ sketches, the from the New Town by going through Dundas Street, St Edinburgh. Many University Carol remembers her flat in them. Princes Street Gardens North is placed at the bottom Andrew’s Square, Waverley Bridge and Cockburn Street. buildings and halls of Bruntsfield with “a balcony is a beloved place, where of the page, and the West is residence are clustered looking over a grand vista”. people recall childhood on the right-hand side. Some Unpopular Routes around George Square and The Waverley exit on Princes memories of ice-cream and areas are bigger than in People don’t like Bristo Square. The Library Street reminds Katie of her open-air concerts. Halls of reality (George Square appears so big and detailed!), walking along busy in George Square is the sunny arrival in Edinburgh in residence where someone and some areas have completely disappeared (can and noisy areas. place where many students 2002; and for Euan, the Central Mosque evokes the “arrived as a student in the you find the Pleasance on the map?). The New Town Leith Street, Clerk “spent most of their life”; sound of the call for prayer that he has heard many 1980s, then found friendship is a long and narrow band of parallel streets, whilst the Street and Lothian Road are considered awkward for the Grassmarket and the times in Middle Eastern countries. and love” and a wedding Meadows look huge. pedestrians due to their congestion and many traffic Cowgate bars and pubs are dress shop where “people who go there must be lights. 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