Modern Dublin

Urban Change and the Irish Past, 1957-1973

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ID8065758
AuthorsErika Hanna (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages230
Publication date2013-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueModern Dublin Urban Change And The Irish Past 19571973 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199680450.001.0001
OpenAlexW4210733107
Open LibraryOL26177617M
ISBN9780199680450
LanguageEN
Citations received17

During the 1960s the physical landscape of Dublin changed more than at any time since the eighteenth century. In this period the government began investing in town planning, new opportunities arose for the country's architects, and the old buildings of the core began to be replaced by modern structures. The early manifestations of this process were well received, understood as the first visible signs of prosperity and broader social and economic modernization. However, this attitude was short-lived. By the end of the 1960s popular support for urban change had evaporated; a disparate movement of preservationists, housing activists, students, and architects emerged to oppose urban change and campaign for the retention of the city's heritage. The new buildings and urban forms had not brought the promised national rejuvenation; instead, the rapid destruction of the extant city had come to be seen as symbolic of the corruption and failed promise of modernization. Modern Dublin examines this story. Using approaches from urban studies and cultural geography, it reveals Dublin as a place of complex exchange between a variety of interest groups with different visions for the built environment, and thus for society and the independent nation. In so doing, it adds to growing literatures on civil society, heritage, and cultural politics since independence, and provides a fresh approach to social and cultural change in 1960s Ireland

Civil society · Cultural heritage · Economy · Government (linguistics · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Buildings, structures · City planning · Dublin · Economic conditions · ireland · politics and government · Urban policy · Urbanization

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