The Process of Urban Regeneration in Dublin: Before the Crisis, After the Crisis
The process of urban regeneration in Dublin: Before the crisis, after the crisis DR NIAMH MOORE SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY, PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Presentazione al Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Palermo Seminar Overview The urban context The general development of Dublin The ‘urban crisis’ in the 1980s Framing regeneration Entrepreneurialism and governance Changing policy environment: area-based interventions Strategic urban projects & the public-private relationship Before, during and after the boom: Case study: Dublin Docklands After the boom: Where to now? The Urban Context Dublin, Ireland Dublin and Irish urban change 1970s /1980s: Global economic change, decline BUST of inner city Mid-1980s to 2007: Global growth, return to the inner city, redevelopment and regeneration, BOOM gentrification etc. 2007 to present: Global recession, national economic decline, construction slump, recovery? BUST 1950s onwards: Context for change: Global economic transformation National government policy: Wright Plan, 1966 Suburban expansion to the north, west and south Urban decay in 1970s and early-1980s Out-migration of industry to locations on the urban fringe New companies chose to locate operations in attractive suburbs Unprecedented rise in unemployment of 97,000 (1971- 1981) Changing distribution of economic functions and a redundant inner-city. Population change in Dublin Dublin 2011: 1,270,603 Dublin City: 525,383 (+3.8%) Fingal: 273,051 (+13.8%) DunLaogh: 206,995
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