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Chasing the rent gap down on Edinburgh’s waterfront

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Despite the affluence of its city centre, Edinburgh’s waterfront remains a largely undeveloped patchwork of ex-industrial docklands. The Waterfront Edinburgh project in the early 2000s was an ambitious attempt to regenerate the former Granton Harbour. This paper takes a long-term view of the fate of that project—from grand potential, through stagnation and crisis, and back again to grand potential—to consider anew the use of the rent gap model in a context where gentrification seems to have failed. Threading together the changing fate of this site reveals the imaginary nature of potential and the limits to the state’s power, whilst reminding us that potential land values can (and must) go down as well as up.

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  • Hamish Kallin, 2021. "Chasing the rent gap down on Edinburgh’s waterfront," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(5-6), pages 614-633, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:614-633
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1976559
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