Urban Solutions

Who’s job is it to solve the urban problems? City or urban planners.

How? Urban redevelopment –To relocate families, demolish their houses and rebuild for commercial purposes. Urban renewal –Old houses replaced with new houses, community centres so that residents can remain in the area. New towns built to reduce urban sprawl.

The Liberties – Urban Renewa Many families depended on employment from Wills cigarettes and from Guiness for many decades. New corporation housing (council houses) Refurbished factories Traffic management Art and street side seating. Tree planting.

New Towns – Tallaght and Shannon Case study on Tallaght –To control urban sprawl –Planned –House the overspill –Industrial estates –Services –The Square in Tallaght – shopping. –Wide roads –Less congestion

Inner city development