Dublin: the shaping of a capital

Dublin, the Georgian architectural gem, and Dubliners, the people immortalised by Joyce and Behan, share a highly romantic and idealised international image. The aim of this book is to examine through a comprehensive urban geography of the city how far the stereotypical picture of Dublin life and la...

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1. Verfasser: MacLaran, Andrew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Belhaven Press 1993
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:World cities series
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Zusammenfassung:Dublin, the Georgian architectural gem, and Dubliners, the people immortalised by Joyce and Behan, share a highly romantic and idealised international image. The aim of this book is to examine through a comprehensive urban geography of the city how far the stereotypical picture of Dublin life and landscape mesh with the real facts of a modern industrial and political capital, dominating in size and influence a small country on the edge of the European Community. Andrew MacLaran begins his study by sketching Dublin's historical roots from Norse foundations through Irish and English influences to the emergent capital of an independent Ireland. He then examines the evolution of the urban economy since 1945 and analyses the Political and Planning contexts within which recent developments have taken place. Attention then focuses on the city's Population, its youthful age-structure and its social composition and then deals in some depth with the Housing System
The book concludes with an examination of the emergence of serious Inner-City problems resulting from economic restructuring. This important book will be widely read as the classic, authoritative study of a remarkable city
Beschreibung:XIII, 242 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:0470220090
1852931663

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