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Back to the Street

Book
1980
University College Dublin
€ 6.00 

Jointly published by the Housing Research Unit at the School of Architecture in University College Dublin and Cement-Roadstone Holdings Ltd., Back to the Street records Dublin inner-city housing at the beginning of the 1980s and proposes a strategy of urban renewal through the provision of housing to deal with city dereliction and decay.

1. Apologia

2. The Problems of Urban Decay

3. Present Attitudes to City Renewal

4. The Value of the City Street

5. A City Neighbourhod - The Central Liberties

6. Towards a Better City - The Way Forward

Author: Gerry Cahill.

School of Architecture, University College Dublin, UCD, neighbourhood, The Liberties, Dublin, Dublin Corporation, DCC, density, planning regulation, housing conference, urban living, the devaluation of the street, the role of the street, land use, building condition, condensation,

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