Last week saw the Academy of Urbanism’s annual congress, which this year was in Edinburgh. Except of course it wasn’t. 

We were all sitting at home hearing about Edinburgh, following virtual walking tours (that were surprisingly effective) but not communing together as we did in those distant pre-pandemic days in places like Eindhoven, Aarhus and Cork.

Fed up with this now – you can’t experience cities virtually. Now that summer is here, I want to go back to being an urban tourist.

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