Re: Re: A Nation at War with its Capital City?

@Cute Panda wrote:

Most middle class Dubliners until the Celtic Tiger were almost exclusively from rural familes no more than one or two generations back.

Well this is true in the case of any middle class Dubliners born in the 1930s/1940s that I know – but that’s a very small sample size!

Anyhow you may consider joining the CCP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T54TU8bsj8

All development of cities and towns halted in favour of suburbanisation around 40-50 years ago. Developers would happily have made more cash from building terraced streets at higher densities so we can only blame policy. So I would say that this has been the major obstacle to urban development.