Recent Submissions

  • Planning suburbia: development density issues 

    Biddlecombe, Bob (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, 2002)
    The right of speculative developers and government officials to significantly modify the culture of its poorest and weakest citizens in order to amortise the land banks and squeeze an already overdeveloped city into its ...
  • Dublin's north fringe: a new model for suburban greenfield development 

    Gleeson, Dick (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, 2002)
    The process described here represents a negotiated Masterplan initiated by Dublin Corporation to provide a coherent urban design and implementation framework for the development of a major new urban area on the northern ...
  • Local development issues on the urban periphery: Tallaght from the bottom-up 

    Punch, Michael (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, 2002)
    The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of aspects of urban social change by orientating the analysis around a grassroots-level focus . Specifically, bottom-up experiences of and responses to some of ...
  • Participation at the periphery: community participation in reformed local government structures 

    O Broin, Deric (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, 2002)
    This paper briefly examines the current local government structures in Ireland and, in particular, the role and experience of the newly established structures in Fingal County Council and Dublin Corporation. The example ...
  • Transport infrastructures and sustainability of urban development 

    Kamp, Hendrik van der (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, 2002)
    There is an increasing degree of concern over the continuing sprawl of low density development outwards from the Dublin Region and the leapfrogging pattern of commuter based housing development as urban centres some distance ...

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