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living in town ... conserving the future

Book
1974
An Foras Forbartha
€ 7.95 

living in town ... conserving the future provides a summary of the papers presented at the Housing Conference held at Leopardstown, Co. Dublin from 1 October to 3 October 1974. Organised by An Foras Forbartha, the conference was jointly sponsored by the Department of Local Government and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

 
Contents

The Economic and Social Costs of Housing

Professor P. R. Kaim-Caudle

 

Health Aspects of Town Living

Professor Ivor W. Browne

 

The Role of the Voluntary Housing Movement

Mr. William Darmon

 

The Problems of Redevelopment

Mr. James Molloy

 

Housing: The Financial Structure; Grants and Subsidies

Mr. M. D. McGuigan
 

Resource Availability and its Implications for the Individual Housing Unit

Mr. J. Owen Lewis

 

Housing in Town and City

Mr. Theo Crosby

 

Snap: Towards an Innovative Urban Programme

Mr. J. D. McConaghy

 

The Problems of Designing Urban Houses and Some Cost Implications of Design Standards

Mr. Edward McKiernan

 

Towns – Infill v Sprawl

Mr. Niall Meagher

 

The Character of the Irish Town

Dr. Maurice Craig

 

Urban Development – The Scottish Experience

Professor Andrew MacMillan

 

Rehabilitating Town Houses – The London Experience

Mr. A. P. Chapman

 

Final Summary

James Pike

Authors: P. R. Kaim-Caudle, Ivor W. Browne, William Darmon, James Molloy, M. D. McGuigan, J. Owen Lewis, Theo Crosby, J. D. McConaghy, Edward McKiernan, Niall Meagher, Maurice Craig, Andrew MacMillan, A. P. Chapman, James Pike.

Housing Committee, housing, community development, urban problems, urban issues, London, Glasgow, housing action, deprived, deprived communities, University of Durham, Department of Sociology and Social Administration, social security, EEC, EU, second-hand housing, shared dwelling, US National Commission for Urban Problems, home ownership, psychiatry, UCD, University College Dublin, The Dilemma of the Human Family, A Cycle of Growth and Decline, society, institutionalisation, corporate institution, Bethlehem Foundation, Dublin Diocesan Housing Agency, Housing Department, Dublin Corporation, Catholic Housing Aid Society, Family Housing Association, British Housing Association, housing advice centres, voluntary housing, landlord, tenant, tenure, housing pressure, central heating, voluntary housing movement, Bishop Casey, 1974 Housing Act, Clonliffe, Housing Co-ordinator, Dublin City and County, Dun Laoghaire, Assistant City Manager, Dun Laoghaire Corporation, Planning, redevelopment, historical, Compulsory Purchase, Housing Acts, Public Sworn Inquiry, CPO, public authority, placement, clearance, chairman of the housing committee, demolition, Royal Institute of Architects, Irish Builder and Engineer, Sean O’Casey, Housing grants section, Civil service, Building Societies, Planning Act, Bord Failte, Bord’s Tidy Town Competition, Building Science and Technology, Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, Irish housing, AFF, IIRS, NBA, central heating, National Energy Policy, UCG, NUIG, Sitting, Shape, Orientation, Fabric, Fenestration, Ventilation, Heating Installation, Pentagram, Industrial Designers, International Union of Architects, Congress, British Pavilion, Architecture: City Sense, The Necessary Movement, Arts Council, living in cities, Department of Environment, Shelter Neighbourhood Action Project, SNAP, Master plan, Craigavon, Craigavon Development Commission, Liverpool, General Development Area Proposals, enclave, national building agency, cost implications, design standards, performance standards, Essex Design Guide, Royal Town Planning Institute, AAI, Architectural Association of Ireland, Kildare Archaeological Society, accidental black spot, Ministry of Works, An Taisce, Patrick Shaffrey, Strathclyde, Gillespie Kidd and Coia, RIBA, Functional Order, Order of Significant Movement, Visual Order, Victorian City, Department of Architecture and Civic Design, Greater London Council, LCC, rehabilitation, syndicate discussion, economic and social costs of housing, the health aspects of town living, the problems of redevelopment, the voluntary housing movement in England and Suggestions for its Establishment here, Financial Structure, Grants and Subsidies, the implication of recent development on the design and construction of the individual housing unit, ESB, local authority housing, Ballymun, Dr. Browne, Des McConaghy, housing finance,

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