Main entry:

Brady, Joseph, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

The making of Dublin City

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-432) and index.
Building the modern city -- The 1950s and 1960s -- A revitalized housing programme -- Flats and high-rise -- Home ownership -- The European context -- The housing sector at the end of the 1960s -- The social areas of Dublin, 1971 -- The wider urban context -- Appendices : -- 1. Detail of selected aspects from the censuses of population -- 2. The socio-demographic spatial structure of Dublin, 1971.

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.

ISBN:

9781846825996 (paperback)
1846825997 (paperback)
9781846826238 (hardback)
1846826233 (hardback)

Subject:

Housing Ireland Dublin.
Cities and towns Ireland Dublin History 20th century.
City planning.
Villes Irlande Dublin Histoire 20e siècle.
Politics and Government.
Cities and towns.
Housing.
Wohnungswesen
Dublin (Ireland) History 20th century.
Dublin (Ireland) Sociological aspects 20th century.
Ireland Dublin.
Dublin

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Making of Dublin city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295336
Call No.: BIB 241494
Status: Available