Dublin Social Housing Typology

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- April 2, 2006 at 4:29 am #708543
  
  javi
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  Hello everyone,
  
  When I moved to Dublin one of the first thing I notice was the huge ammount of colective social housing, mostly between the canals, they seem to be built almost at the same time because the typology, scheme and materials is almost exactly in each one.
  
  I would like to find more information about when they were built and who made then, any help?
  
  Thanks for your time
- April 2, 2006 at 3:59 pm #776410
  
  publicrealm
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  I’m not sure about the modern stuff – perhaps Dublin City Council could help – but the earlier stuff is well covered in Murray Fraser’s book “John Bull’s other Homes, State Housing and British Policy in Ireland, 1883-1922”, Liverpool University Press, 1996.
- April 2, 2006 at 4:06 pm #776411
  
  javi
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  Thanks for your help, currently I am more interested in the brown brick blocks with open corridors and duplex units. I seems to be 60’s o 70’s constructions, any ideas?
  
  Anyway many thanks for the reference, Can I find this book in Richview UCD library?
- April 2, 2006 at 11:41 pm #776412
  
  Morlan
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  Is it these type of buildings you’re reffering to?
  
  You should find some information on google searching for ‘dublin social housing’ or something
  
  Links may or may not be of use
  http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69752&topic=housing
  http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71921
- April 3, 2006 at 12:35 am #776413
  
  javi
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  That is!!! The ones in the second image are which I am looking for.. this typology is repeated everywhere…
  
  Thanks for the links!!!
  
  Anyone know any thesis historic research or printed books about these buildings? The info in Internet is more related about the actual social and economic situation and the pressure that big developments companies are putting on these strategic sites.
  
  Thanks again for your help!
- April 3, 2006 at 1:54 am #776414
  
  publicrealm
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  @javi wrote:
  
  Anyway many thanks for the reference, Can I find this book in Richview UCD library?
  
  The Richview catalogue (and the main UCD one) is available and searchable online at UCD
  
  http://udprism01.ucd.ie/TalisPrism/
- April 3, 2006 at 1:49 pm #776415
  
  javi
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  Thanks! I will check it.
- April 3, 2006 at 1:55 pm #776416
  
  Anonymous
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  See post 11
- April 3, 2006 at 10:50 pm #776417
  
  javi
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  Thanks, I will check both books in Richview this week.
- April 4, 2006 at 1:12 am #776418
  
  GrahamH
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  Some of these (Fitzgerald?) blocks…
  
  …have just been redecorated; the originally exposed pebbledashed ‘cylinders’ painted a dark shade of grey, and the pebbledashed elevations of the flats themelves (on the other side in the pic I think) painted off-white. They look much improved.
  The cylinders look rather strange in such a dark colour after years of their light grey cement finish.
- April 4, 2006 at 10:59 am #776419
  
  Anonymous
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  @Thomond Park wrote:
  
  Doh
  
  Dublin 1910 – 1940 Shaping the City and Suburbs [2002] Ruth McManus Four Courts Press
  
  pages 162 -234 deal very well with the theories and delivery of many of these schemes
- April 8, 2006 at 6:06 pm #776420
  
  javi
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  Many Thanks Thomond Park, I will check it this afternoon. I have found these other books related to the topic:
  
  Housing in Dublin’s Inner City [1979] Deirdre O’Connor
  Centre Versus Periphery [1989] James Walsh
  
  I just discover that Dublin City Council was named until 2002 as the Dublin Corporation or commonly named “The Corpo” That s why I couldnt find more information related to that period. Does Dublin City Council has a library related to housing and planing where I can find more info?
  
  For my surprise, I couldn’t find more books in Richview about it. There are several thesys on this subject, I will check them next week.
  
  Thanks for your help
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