Renewing urban communities : environment, citizenship and sustainability in Ireland
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Renewing urban communities : environment, citizenship and sustainability in Ireland
（Urban planning and environment）
Ashgate, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Ireland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-generated growth and new patterns of development in recent years. This inter-disciplinary book adopts an all-Ireland perspective to investigate the tension that exists between sustainable urban development values and rhetoric - such as increased densities, brown field development, the compact city and social inclusion - and the emerging geography of urban Ireland, influenced by consumer and lifestyle choices. The introduction provides an overview of the dynamics of urban change, particularly during the 1990s, and the experience of rapid economic growth. The following chapters are divided into two parts, considering sustainable urban environments, and sustainable communities. This book will appeal to students, academics, policy and decision-makers, given that it adopts both a qualitative and quantitative approach, and introduces a range of new empirical studies covering both physical and social sustainable development.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: The geographical and policy context, Niamh Moore and Mark Scott. Sustainable Urban Environments: Re-greening brownfields: land recycling and urban sustainability, Niamh Moore
- Higher density or open space: the future role of green space, Craig Bullock
- Suburbanising Dublin: out of an overcrowded frying pan into a fire of unsustainability, Andrew MacLaran
- Urban form and reducing the demand for car travel: towards an integrated policy agenda for the Belfast metropolitan area?, Malachy McEldowney, Tim Ryley, Mark Scott and Austin Smyth
- Improving energy efficiency in urban areas, J. Peter Clinch
- From barricades to back gardens: cross-border urban expansion from the city of Derry into Co. Donegal, Chris Paris
- Urban-generated rural housing and evidence of counterurbanisation in the Dublin city-region, Menelaos Gkartzios and Mark Scott. Sustainable communities: 'we're too busy for that kind of stuff': progress towards local sustainable development in Ireland, Geraint Ellis, Brian Motherway and William J. V. Neill
- Social and ethnic segregation and the urban agenda, Brendan Murtagh
- The state and civil society in urban regeneration: negotiating sustainable participation in Belfast and Dublin, Jenny Muir
- Active citizenship: resident associations, social capital and collective action, Paula Russell, Mark Scott and Declan Redmond
- Housing policy, homeownership and the provision of affordable housing, Declan Redmond and Gillian Kernan
- Conclusion: towards a sustainable future for Irish towns and cities, Niamh Moore and Mark Scott
- Index.
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