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Hi! I’m new here!
I’m curious about your city, how it can improve from it’s present condition, how it can become more dense. I’ve read that they are trying to do just that. How are thay doing so far? And how is the Architecture, the quality, the beauty? What are they doing about housing and the tower blocks in the city? I have more questions but not right now, I’m just very interested, thanks.
Originally posted by AncientCity
Hi! I’m new here!I’m curious about your city, how it can improve from it’s present condition
Drop Bomb in centre – start again
Oh the cynicism
At the moment, a lot of effort is going into fixing the terrible mistakes made in the 1960s & 70s, such as refacing inappropriate office buildings and developing vacant sites & neglected areas. Public & private transport is the major issue and looks set to be that for another 2 decades as plans are delayed, put back, over-running on cost and some just scrapped.
You should have a look at a newly published book called “The New Housing” . It focuses on new Irish higher density housing schemes in rural, suburban & urban areas throughout Ireland but mainly in Dublin. It’s an excellent book with lots of good photographs of these schemes along with the statistical breakdown of how many units there are per acre etc, etc.
The only place I know you can buy it in is the RIAI on Merrion Sq.
Yes, there are many new “dense” things in the city.
But if you want to see the planning mistakes and weird and wonderful in sharp contrast, get the DART to Killbarrack and get a 17A bus from there to Finglas. From the upper deck, you will see the horrid planning mistakes of the past as you pass through Coolock and Ballymun, while you see contrasting ghettoisation in its crudest form when the bus turns for leafy Glasnevin and the wonderful ribbon middle class semi-detached sixties glories, before ending up in no-mans land in Finglas. But along the way you will see new and improved social housing, the long-awaited destruction of Babylon (Ballymun), and the start to our glorious Port Tunnel. And Finglas is changing for the better.
A nice day trip, eh?!!!
…. then take a trip to Tallaght and view the bedlam of banal boring development around the Square…and view what they consider a focal point for that so wronged (by planners and architects) community a 20 ft Totum Pole !! in the old village….and what passes for New Street a wind swept narrow enclosed in your face canyon of of banality and traffic bollards…..and all this is an example of modren Irish architecture and planning…the 70s lives on out west.
ah come on, its not that bad out here !!!
Thanks for the information!
OMG! Dublin has alot of problems left over from past mistakes, I hope that something can be done about it.
How negative can we be?? Listen to yourselves… Ancient wanted to know about what we would be doing.. not what has gone behind! He actually used the word “beauty” ,, which maybe needs some translation to your dusty ears..
Get your noses out of the books, sit in Stephens Green and breath some real air.Listen to today’s paper – now we are bottom of the league in our e / digital planning infrastructure.. most thought we or rather our goverment had at least a handle on this..all the waffle about digital hubs MIT gateways etc.. not enough shouting and protesting goes on in this place compared to other places..we are getting a raw deal in every direction and swallow so much waffle.
sure why don’t we all go and kill ourselves? god the negativity, try looking at the other side of the coin for once ! compare dublin today with dublin twenty years ago … unrecognisable, this is a great city and i love living in it, warts and all …
True Pete, I agree with you, Dublin of years ago has’nt a patch on Dublin today. It, however, has changed immensely (thanks to the boom) and greatly for the better, ie…. it’s more cosmopolitan, foreign nationals abound, nearly everyone is working, there are things to do and things to see as unlike before, there is less dereliction, the new architecture is interesting (ahem!……..that’s debatable in some cases).
There is a buzz of optimism and hope, chic and style…… (Pretentious it may seem to some, but Dublin needs such an air of middle class ‘Bourgeoisie’. It sounds, bad I know, but Irish society has become more middle class within the last 20 years except it is a status that is unrecognised by most of those who have become middle class today. Please don’t be pedantic with my wording folks).
So let’s not get complacent and lazy then, let’s raise those standards even more and Dublin can set the precedent (as it is the capital city of Ireland) for the rest of urban life in Ireland.
It is the quality of our own lives, life in general and our environment around us that matters at the end of the day. So let’s really get those qualities and standards right and high for us all today and the generations to come.
Heres to Dublin City and Irish Life….Cheers!Originally posted by GregF
True Pete, I agree with you, Dublin of years ago hasn’t a patch on Dublin today… more cosomopolitan… There is a buzz of optimism and hope, chic and style…… Dublin needs such an air of middle class ‘Bourgeoisie’…..I agree with all of this.
I know you are referring to Dublin of the 1950s – 1980s when you say ‘years ago’. But, in my imagination at least, I feel Dublin of the 19th century had that cosmopolitan air, optimism, style, etc.
I think of the International Exhibition of 1865, the building of the National Museum, the Jewish Quarter, swanky restaurants on Grafton Street, the great family-owned businesses, connections with far-flung outposts of the Empire and so on.
I would love to know what it was like to be in Dublin back then.
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