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Modern Dublin - Urban Change and the Irish Past, 1957-1973 (Hardcover)
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Modern Dublin - Urban Change and the Irish Past, 1957-1973 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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During the 1960s, the physical landscape of Dublin changed more
than at any time since the eighteenth century. In this period, the
government began to invest in town planning, new opportunities
arose for the country's architects, and the old buildings of the
core began to be replaced by modern structures. The early
manifestations of this process were well received, understood as
the first visible signs of prosperity and broader social and
economic modernization. However, this attitude was short lived. By
the end of the 1960s, popular support for urban change had
evaporated; a disparate movement of preservationists, housing
activists, students, and architects emerged to oppose urban change
and campaign for the retention of the city's heritage. The new
buildings and urban forms had not brought the promised national
rejuvenation. Instead, the rapid destruction of the extant city had
come to be seen as symbolic of the corruption and failed promise of
modernization. Modern Dublin examines this story. Using approaches
from urban studies and cultural geography, the author reveals
Dublin as a place of complex exchange between a variety of interest
groups with different visions for the built environment, and thus
for society and the independent nation. In so doing, Erika Hanna
adds to growing literatures on civil society, heritage, and
cultural politics since independence, and provides a fresh approach
to social and cultural change in 1960s Ireland.
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