UID:
almahu_9949384045102882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781351592314
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1351592319
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9781315102528
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1315102528
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9781351592321
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1351592327
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Architecture
Content:
This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporation built tens of thousands of two-storey houses, developing whole communities from virgin sites and green fields at the city's edge, while tentatively building four-storey flat blocks in the city centre. Author Ellen Rowley examines how and why this endeavour occurred. Asking questions around architectural and urban obsolescence, she draws on national political and social histories, as well as looking at international architectural histories and the influence of post-war reconstruction programmes in Britain or the symbolisation of the modern dwelling within the formation of the modern nation. Critically, the book tackles this housing history as an architectural and design narrative. It explores the role of the architectural community in this frenzied provision of housing for the populace. Richly illustrated with architectural drawings and photographs from contemporary journals and the private archives of Dublin-based architectural practices, this book will appeal to academics and researchers interested in the conditions surrounding Dublin's housing history.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Three grounds -- telling the story of housing architecture in Dublin; Heroes and victims?; Notes; Chapter 1 Irish architecture and its culture, 1930-1970; Part I. The background; Part II. The Emergency years; Part III. Post-Emergency 1946-1949; Part IV. The 1950s' mixed fortunes; Part V. Into the 1960s: towards wholesale modernisation; Some thoughts ... ; Notes; Chapter 2 Clearing hovels and building homes: Architectural endeavours in Dublin's housing reforms, 1931-1945.
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Part I. Working-class housing in 1930s DublinPart II. The Report of Inquiry into the Housing of the Working Classes of the City of Dublin; Part III. A miracle of planning; Part IV. Town planning as common ground from the late 1930s; Part V. Architects' endeavours: into the early 1940s; Some thoughts ... ; Notes; Chapter 3 Building on the edge: Dublin's suburban housing drive of the 1940s; Part I. From rural depopulation to suburban housing proliferation; Part II. Crumlin housing estate: an architectural account; Part III. Crumlin housing estate: a social view.
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Part IV. Chronology of events from Emergency to post-warSome thoughts ... ; Notes; Chapter 4 How we might live: The architecture of 'ordinary' housing from late 1940s to 1950s Dublin; Part I. Peripheral profession; Part II. Preoccupied by prefabrication; Part III. Prefabrication in reality; Part IV. Between tradition and system: the cavity block; Part V. An ideal home for 1950s Dublin; Some thoughts ... ; Notes; Chapter 5 Housing the collective: Multi-storey dwellings in Dublin, c.1930 to c.1970; Part I. Situating Dublin's 1930s flat block schemes.
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Part II. Emergency measures: Alternative types and deviations from typePart III. Walk-ups and suburban sites: Tentative typologies; Part IV. Avant-garde solutions for regenerating late 1950s Dublin; Some thoughts ... ; Notes; Chapter 6 Some thoughts ... : New and old housing from the 1960s into the 1970s; Part I. Crisis and new directions: System building for 1960s Dublin; Part II. Return to the living city: Protest and a housing competition; And so ... some overall thoughts; Notes; Appendix; List of flat schemes from Dublin City Library and Archive (DCLA), 1850-1977; Bibliography.
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I. Unpublished material(a) Archives:; (b) Reports, lectures and theses:; II. Published material; (a) Official publications (ordered chronologically):; (b) Journals and newspapers (no page numbers for newspapers; titles with no author name available listed first, in alphabetical order):; (c) Books:; Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Rowley, Ellen. Housing, architecture and the edge condition. New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9781138103801
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781315102528
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315102528
