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u never liked kylie!!! my god man!
persiflage!!!! i liked that too. have no idea what it means but sounds funny.
gas electricity generating power stations produce bugger all emissions. i know ..am doing one at the moment.
but ok we don’t like electricity well what about hydrogen?anyway back to the architecture. the car is certainly shaping the spread of these horrible, horrible housing estates. more and more people wanting this utopia of a house in the country and then moving into an estate in a small town to achieve something of this. how i don’t know but i’m not going to judge what average joe punter likes.
it is easier to travel( with the car but not the resultant traffic jams) so at the moment there is no real need for higher densities and therefore our backward looking people are stating that there is no need for it and would ruin the look of our “beautiful” low rise inner cities.
the new cities across the lake at welwyn amongst others i believe tried to cater for the advent of the car. but they tried to keep the cars out of the centre and have lots and lots of open space. i am interested to know if this is a general view held by all and is it sucessful to a degree. i know it’s not particularly good now as they didn’t think in the 50-100 years bracket where nearly everybody has a car.
the question i suppose i am angling towards is do we need a modern interpretation for this type of city and with the advent of a seemingly new space race will more technology reach us where if we do design a new welwyn will it be out of date in 50 years.
yeah! gas works well.
i would be a subscriber for electricity still.
and a billion. jeez didn’t think it would be that much.Originally posted by Diaspora
We are in financial trouble if this isn’t sorted out. Because the EU will collect Carbon taxes if more sustainable commuting options aren’t provided.how much are we talking about? and what do u mean by sustainable transport???? electric buses comes into my mind when u say that…
absolutely. but if there was higher densities then there wouldn’t be this push to live in the towns in the midlands. lot more people working and liuving in the city- more money for the centre and making it more vibrant with people being there all the time.
Originally posted by Devin
Get your act together Fin!! Thursday’s Prime Time was a special on one-off housing, featuring a report, followed by a studio discussion with a panel of six people, one of whom was from An Taisce.well i am sorry. i shall try to get my act together in the future…. and really give a crap.
Originally posted by Devin
Yes, the usual bungalow defenders (O’Cuiv, Caulfield) didnt come off very well this time. They tried the usual tactics against An Taisce, attacking “its” policies, but Frank Corcoran just calmly and clearly reiterated that An T. simply apply Government policy (contained in the National Spatial Strategy) and that – he was trying to get this in but Miriam O’Callaghan kept talking over him – Government policy is in turn based on European environmental legislation that Ireland has signed up to..were watching the one on rte 1 ????? if so i must have seen a different one.
Originally posted by Devin
Emer O’Siochru (somebody described as a hippy) is a well-respected architect who’s been working in the area of built heritage for many years…i have never heard of her…well-respected where???? and i called her a hippy because she came across as one.
Originally posted by Devin
Mr Llyod Webber said he realised there were few things more infuriating than “some outsider pontificating about the affairs of another country.is not the spokesman for an taisce(definately here anyway) not of similiar heritage as loyld webber? and yes there is nothing more infuriating
Originally posted by Devin
But I plead a huge affection for Ireland and it grieves me to see such a special landscape besmirched by houses that have absolutely no sympathy for local vernacular architecture whatsoever”, he said yesterday……’from his large mansion no doubt.
oh! i found this and thought of you….
Originally posted by anto
But the architects could still have designed pedestrian access to Central Park to accomadate Luas users.
who will pay for it?
it’s up to the council to provide these. they can ask for it to be included in a development but if they don’t then the developer isn’t going to pay for it. and even if the architect puts it in, it will be removed by cost cutting measures. at the end of the day it’s the council’s problem. absolutely nothing to do with the architect.i wouldn’t say that sw101. i am actually appaled at the reactions u have been getting brian. i would suggest backing up your drawings on ur hard drive if they do that. thankfully where i am there is only a little jealousy that manifests itself in slagging and derisiory comments but if u give it back then they stop. bloody teckies!!!! 🙂
it is preferable to provide car parking alright but if not a contribution has to be paid. i can’t remember the exact figure but 2500 per space sounds familiar for some reason.
if you have the space then they will insist on you providing parking. some won’t even grant without providing them no matter if u have the space or not ( as happened to me in sligo recently)i don’t know where they got those figures from cos i don’t see how those particular stats could be right but if they are then it is a start.they are trying to start this park and ride thing in galway with a big car park in oranmore and buses and trains in every 15 mins or so. this would reduce cars in town. i think the notion of reducing car depenency is a pie in the sky idea. it’s here lets just work around it. and these seem to be at least part of the key.
yea i have seen them before.
there is a car park ( i think it’s an audi show room now i think about it)somewhere in germany where it’s something like 14 storeys high and all cars are lifted into place. really classy stuff.
absolutely no doubt if there was a better transit system there would be higher developments.i don’t know if it has affected us because usually buildings are taken in isolation and only make provisiion for what is needed by the current development plan for the region. i mean the roads haven’t changed that much to make us design for dependency.
besides the fact that it’s always been there and somewhat suprisingly people are still shocked at stat’s like that.
of course there is a dependency on cars. we live in cities that are urban sprawls without any fully developed mass transit systems(wether they being public or private) and so it is forced on us.yea!! to none of these hubs… ha,ha.. in general as i said before it is a good idea but to politicions home towns is hilarious. typical of our corrupt government. not that the alternatives are any better. as i have also said before bring on a dictator!!!!!! apart from the whole killing everyone thing… that tends to just generate bad press. then we will get something done.
this price for the ennis by-pass is something else. i think we should re-tender everyone of them. spend a lot less money on them and bring in the turks.
