Modern Dublin : urban change and the Irish past, 1957-1973 / Erika Hanna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanna, Erika, author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy--Ireland--Dublin--History--20th century.

Urban policy.

City planning--Ireland--Dublin--History--20th century.

City planning.

Buildings--Ireland--Dublin.

Buildings.

History.

Ireland--Dublin.

Dublin (Ireland)--History--20th century.

Dublin (Ireland).

Physical Description:

vi, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

During the 1960s the physical landscape of Dublin changed more than at any time since the eighteenth century. In this period, the government began to invest in town planning, new opportunities arose for the country's architects, and the old buildings of the city centre 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. This attitude, however, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Planning and the Eighteenth-Century City, 1955-75 22

2 Georgian Dublin and Modern Architecture, 1950-65 48

3 Kildare Place and the Irish Georgian Society, 1957-8 67

4 Modernization and Preservation, 1958-65 83

5 Housing, Community, and Preservation, 1963-70 111

6 Material Culture and Social Politics, 1964-73 144

7 Office Politics, 1965-70 172.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliograhy: pages 208-224.

ISBN:

9780199680450

0199680450

OCLC:

864391738