A new city..

CB19Kevo · 26-08-2012 01:48PM #1

Taking away the current financial state and looking to the future could it be feasible to develop a new urban center.
A planned city, Incorporating a well developed road,rail and underground network.
Aim for high rise construction and completely shut off urban sprawl.

As i see it the current main 4 have all major flaws mainly of course as a result of growth over hundreds of years and unfortunately many bad decisions made in recent years.

Where should this new metropolis be located or is our island too small for a new large city?

26-08-2012 01:50PM

We should make a city under the sea, where there are no constraints on science, art or surgery. There's no way this could go wrong ...

minidazzler · 26-08-2012 01:50PM

Who could we have move in there? There are plenty of empty houses in this country as it is.

26-08-2012 01:59PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSLNBOphpE

There is a new Simcity out early next year:
http://www.simcity.com/en_US
It is about the closest we will get in the near future.

admiralofthefleet · 26-08-2012 02:07PM

was already tried in ballumun but failed because once it was built the government didnt give a fiddlers fart about services for the area

3ndahalfof6 · 26-08-2012 02:10PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

was already tried in ballumun but failed because once it was built the government didnt give a fiddlers fart about services for the area

id say that would be lethal,

Mint Sauce · 26-08-2012 02:14PM

CB19Kevo wrote: »

Taking away the current financial state and looking to the future could it be feasible to develop a new urban center.
A planned city, Incorporating a well developed road,rail and underground network.
Aim for high rise construction and completely shut off urban sprawl.

As i see it the current main 4 have all major flaws mainly of course as a result of growth over hundreds of years and unfortunately many bad decisions made in recent years.

Where should this new metropolis be located or is our island too small for a new large city?

The main 4? Only one I can think of is Dublin. Belfast if your including N Ireland.

redandwhite · 26-08-2012 02:15PM

Where would it go?

TheCoolWay · 26-08-2012 02:18PM

irish-stew wrote: »

The main 4? Only one I can think of is Dublin. Belfast if your including N Ireland.

No need for ignorance they clearly mean Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

ScumLord · 26-08-2012 02:19PM

CB19Kevo wrote: »

Taking away the current financial state and looking to the future could it be feasible to develop a new urban center.
A planned city, Incorporating a well developed road,rail and underground network.
Aim for high rise construction and completely shut off urban sprawl.

Yes, the Chinese have been at this for the last ten years, of course they have a huge budget and no constraints but they've built some impressive modern cities from scratch.

If you can build the city based on practical issues it's straight forward enough but in Ireland it would be drowned in political bull****.

minidazzler wrote: »

Who could we have move in there? There are plenty of empty houses in this country as it is.

That's not the point, the city would be more efficient and a much better place to live, you'd be looking to replace current urban areas with these new news.

TheCoolWay · 26-08-2012 02:20PM

redandwhite wrote: »

Where would it go?

Thought we already set up a few in Oz? Lols

Guy:Incognito · 26-08-2012 02:32PM

We need a good war. Get Dublin flattened then ,hey presto, no planning restrictions, hello modern city.

redandwhite · 26-08-2012 02:34PM

TheCoolWay wrote: »

Thought we already set up a few in Oz? Lols

And USA....UK....:)

Washington Irving · 26-08-2012 02:34PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB9W8St1pDc

redandwhite · 26-08-2012 02:34PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

We need a good war. Get Dublin flattened then ,hey presto, no planning restrictions, hello modern city.

What's a good war????

jd007 · 26-08-2012 02:37PM

redandwhite wrote: »

What's a good war????

The opposite of a bad one. :pac:

Mint Sauce · 26-08-2012 02:39PM

TheCoolWay wrote: »

No need for ignorance they clearly mean Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

Its not really ignorance. In most countries these, including Dublin would be considered a large town. Our planning laws just require you to have a University and a Catherdral for city status consideration.

The J Stands for Jay · 26-08-2012 02:40PM

TheCoolWay wrote: »

irish-stew wrote: »

The main 4? Only one I can think of is Dublin. Belfast if your including N Ireland.

No need for ignorance they clearly mean Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

Aren't Tallaght and Craigavon bigger than the last 3?

AnonoBoy · 26-08-2012 02:43PM

Wherever we build this new city as long as we build it on Rock and Roll I'm happy.

Guy:Incognito · 26-08-2012 02:43PM

redandwhite wrote: »

What's a good war????

One that levels the city we want to modernise and maybe includes a bit of genocide to reduce our populaion of "undesireables"

kfk · 26-08-2012 02:56PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Its not really ignorance. In most countries these, including Dublin would be considered a large town. Our planning laws just require you to have a University and a Catherdral for city status consideration.

Which countries would consider dublin as a large town? I dont think you will find many!

Professey Chin · 26-08-2012 02:59PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Its not really ignorance. In most countries these, including Dublin would be considered a large town. Our planning laws just require you to have a University and a Catherdral for city status consideration.

No they dont and havent for a long time. Theres no official requirements for a city. We have 5 official cities and 1 historical so it can keep the name.

galwayrush · 26-08-2012 02:59PM

McGaggs wrote: »

Aren't Tallaght and Craigavon bigger than the last 3?

Craigavon combined with the population of some nearby towns is still smaller.

Chuck Stone · 26-08-2012 03:04PM

A load of mice living in a white elephant?

Doylers · 26-08-2012 03:13PM

TheCoolWay wrote: »

No need for ignorance they clearly mean Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

So Waterford being forgot by the rest of the county, as usual.

PieForPi · 26-08-2012 03:15PM

There's 1 city in Ireland. (ROI)

The rest are towns that dress up their title the same way some bin men call themselves waste management engineers.

MrJoeSoap · 26-08-2012 03:15PM

Once it has a monorail, I'm in.

galwayrush · 26-08-2012 03:21PM

PieForPi wrote: »

There's 1 city in Ireland. (ROI)

The rest are towns that dress up their title the same way some bin men call themselves waste management engineers.

You're personal opinion is wrong, look it up.

dotsman · 26-08-2012 03:23PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Its not really ignorance. In most countries these, including Dublin would be considered a large town.

PieForPi wrote: »

There's 1 city in Ireland. (ROI)

The rest are towns that dress up their title the same way some bin men call themselves waste management engineers.

Get over yourselves...

Professey Chin · 26-08-2012 03:25PM

PieForPi wrote: »

There's 1 city in Ireland. (ROI)

The rest are towns that dress up their title the same way some bin men call themselves waste management engineers.

Nonsense. A city can be any size. Look at other countries and their official cities. Cities can have 20 million people or 2 thousand people.

PieForPi · 26-08-2012 03:31PM

Girls, don't get upset because I didn't play pretend with your dressed up little towns. I'm sure they've all lovely bottoms, except Limerick's who we all know is covered in blood.

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