Dublin, 1950-1970 : houses, flats and high rise / Joseph Brady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Joseph, author.

Contributor:

Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

Series:

Making of Dublin city

The making of Dublin City

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--Ireland--Dublin.

Housing.

Cities and towns--Ireland--Dublin--History--20th century.

Cities and towns.

History.

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

Dublin (Ireland).

Ireland--Dublin.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2016.

Summary:

Dublin continued to expand its footprint during the 1950s and quickly spilled over into the county area. This was also the period when home ownership became much more common in the private market and the scale of house building, largely in the southern suburbs, reflected a growing city and a more confident economy. Builders sought to construct estates but without an ?estate look? and turned to the US for inspiration. Up to the 1960s, flats were largely a phenomenon of the inner city and were mainly build by Dublin Corporation. A private-sector market in flats began to emerge in the late 1950s but growth was slow with imagination often lacking in developments, which were mostly located on the southside. The big housing experiment of the period was with system building and high-rise on the periphery of the city in Ballymun and, for a time, it seemed as this approach would come to dominate future provision in both public and private sectors. These and other issues are explored in this latest volume in 'The Making of Dublin City' series which, as usual, is enhanced by a significant number of illustrations.

Contents:

The 1950s and 1960s: The economy - Population dynamics - Change in Dublin's population - Marriage and longevity - Housing - Housing facilities - Overcrowding -Tenure - Occupations - Employment and industry in Dublin - End of the 'servant problem' - The labour force - The agenda for 1950-70 - The maps 16

A Revitalized Housing Programme: Achievements - The individual schemes - Ballyfermot - Finglas East and West - Walkinstown and Milltown - Coolock and Kilmore - New schemes - Housing costs - Reserved areas - Public utility societies - Support for private housing - Other council areas - Patterns of tenure -Differential rents - Tenant purchase - Selling houses to tenants -Naming and social interaction 62

Flats and High-Rise: Accommodation in flats - High-rise - Ballymun - System building - The end of high-rise 178

Home Ownership: The path to ownership - Apartments - Individual housing schemes - Greenhills Estate - Monastery Park - Yellow Walls - Dundrum - Offington Park - The Laurels, Terenure Road - Shrewsbury Lawn, Cabinteely - Shanganagh Vale - Bayside, Sutton - The ideal home - All electric -Consumption and consumer products - Innovation -Householders' perceptions 240

The European Context: High-rise and suburban design - Why not high-rise? - The USSR experience - Other European examples - Building suburbs in the UK 304

The Housing Sector at the End of the 1960s: Housing provision in the city - Owner occupancy - Private rental sector - Multiple occupancy - A new city? - Adequacy? 330

The Social Areas of Dublin, 1971: Social structure -The people in 1971 - Social status in the city - Household characteristics - Labour force - Miscellaneous characteristics - Factorial ecology - Socio-economic status in 1971 - Youthfulness and growth - Other aspects of the socio-economic structure of the city - Dublin's distinctiveness 346

The Wider Urban Context: The car, the office and the suburbs 390.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-432) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

ISBN:

9781846825996

1846825997

9781846826238

1846826233

OCLC:

936347898