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Renewing urban communities : environment, citizenship, and sustainability in Ireland
- Title
- Renewing urban communities : environment, citizenship, and sustainability in Ireland / edited by Niamh Moore and Mark Scott.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- 268 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This inter-disciplinary book adopts in 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."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Urban planning and environment
- Uniform Title
- Urban planning and environment.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Community development, Urban > Ireland
- Sustainable development > Ireland
- Urbanization > Ireland
- Développement des collectivités
- Développement urbain
- Développement durable
- Citoyenneté
- UE/CE Etats membres
- Community development, Urban
- Social conditions
- Sustainable development
- Urbanization
- Stadtentwicklung
- Umweltschutz
- Nachhaltigkeit
- Ireland > Social conditions > 21st century
- Irlande
- Ireland
- Irland
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : the geographical and policy context / Niamh Moore and Mark Scott -- 2. Re-greening brownfields : land recycling and urban sustainability / Niamh Moore -- 3. Higher density or open space : the future role of green space / Craig Bullock -- 4. Suburbanising Dublin : out of an overcrowded frying pan into a fire of unsustainability? / Andrew MacLaran -- 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 -- 6. Improving energy efficiency in urban areas / J. Peter Clinch -- 7. From barricades to back gardens : cross-border urban expansion from the city of Derry into Co. Donegal / Chris Paris.
- ISBN
- 0754640833
- 9780754640837
- LCCN
- 2005923317
- OCLC
- ocm59878143
- 59878143
- SCSB-9242415
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries