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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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