Renewing Urban Communities: Environment, Citizenship and Sustainability in Ireland

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ISBN: 9780754640837 | 0754640833
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/28/2005

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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.

List of Figures

vii

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

xvi

1 Introduction: The Geographical and Policy Context

Niamh Moore and Mark Scott

(28)

PART I: SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

2 Re-greening Brownfields: Land Recycling and Urban Sustainability

Niamh Moore

(20)

3 Higher Density or Open Space: The Future Role of Green Space

Craig Bullock

(11)

4 Suburbanising Dublin: Out of an Overcrowded Frying Pan into a Fire of Unsustainability?

Andrew MacLaran

(15)

5 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

(19)

6 Improving Energy Efficiency in Urban Areas

J. Peter Clinch

(20)

7 From Barricades to Back Gardens: Cross-Border Urban Expansion from the City of Derry into Co. Donegal

Chris Paris

114

(18)

8 Urban-Generated Rural Housing and Evidence of Counterurbanisation in the Dublin City-Region

Menelaos Gkartzios and Mark Scott

132

(27)

PART II: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

9 '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

159

(20)

10 Social and Ethnic Segregation and the Urban Agenda

Brendan Murtagh

179

(18)

11 The State and Civil Society in Urban Regeneration: Negotiating Sustainable Participation in Belfast and Dublin

Jenny Muir

197

(16)

12 Active Citizenship: Resident Associations, Social Capital and Collective Action

Paula Russell, Mark Scott and Declan Redmond

213

(22)

13 Housing Policy, Homeownership and the Provision of Affordable Housing

Declan Redmond and Gillian Kernan

235

(18)

PART III: CONCLUSION

14 Towards a Sustainable Future for Irish Towns and Cities

Niamh Moore and Mark Scott

253

(10)

Index

263

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