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The stroll around Edinburgh passes through markedly different socio-economic districts. One of Edinburgh’s great attractions is that socio-geographically it is quite different to that of most cities. Its distinctive geographic pattern – of wealthy areas admixed (cheek-by-jowl) amongst more deprived zones – forms a recurring feature of this 35-km walk. All cities are expanding, and as they do urban sprawl – low-density urban development outside the urban core – resulting from shifts to ever more automobile-dependent living leads to new, difficult challenges. Cities have choices about their future. Various tactics and strategies for reducing the negative effects of sprawl exist. Quo Vadis Edinburgh?
The aim of the walk is to enjoy Edinburgh’s suburbs, outlying areas, and Green Belt setting (while it still exists) by making use of footpaths, tracks, disused railway lines and riverbanks, ascending mine tips, passing alongside farmland, docks and seafronts, and heading through quiet housing-estates as well as shopping-centres and University campus. Each 7-mile leg begins, and ends, at a well-served public bus stop to form a 35-mile, almost totally traffic-free route.
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