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The Walkway follows Edinburgh's river from the edge of the city to the docks in Leith. The scheme included developing a new visitor centre, designed so that its different sections appeal to very different sectors of the visitor market, as well as interpretation along the Walkway itself.
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Three sculpture commissions at key points along the route provide landmarks and reflect the heritage of that particular section of the river.
Sculpture – Sam Booth 
Displays in the visitor centre include custom-made interactives that look at flood management, as well as more traditional subjects such as water power.
Exhibition design – Edward Longbottom
Graphic design in the interactives section is bright, with simple, direct text.
Illustrations – Cavan Convery
Graphic design – Andy McGregor
Along the Walkway itself, a series of bronze plaques designed by medallist Nicola Moss make a trail of rubbings.
Visitors who collected a complete set of rubbings were awarded a specially struck bronze medal.
Writer Ian Rankin opened the rubbings trail, an event that attracted the best press coverage of the entire project!
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