Docklands finally gets the go ahead

hfallada wrote: »

It's a disappointment there isn't a large sky scraper planned. London is probably most famous for its shard or gherkin than anything else now. NYC is famous for the empire state building. But Dublin has no landmark high rise building.

Dublin has nowhere near the population of New York or London. Paris isn't famous for it's sky scrapers (and only has 8 buildings over 100m) and that has a population of 12 million. Wouldn't a bunch of skyscrapers just lay dormant? We can't even fill the buildings we have, let alone magically solve all our problems by building bigger. I mean what are we, North Korea? Let's build big towering buildings just for show so all our tourists will think we actually have a population?:rolleyes:

hfallada wrote: »

People need to forget about "regional development".

Yeah, because under-developed periphery areas are good for the economy. With only one "real" city on the republic, we can't afford ignore regional areas.

hfallada wrote: »

The only regional development you will see in Germany is maybe a city of 100,000 that they plan merging into a bigger city in a few years. Most German cities sprawl into each other. But good public transport resolves most issues

So your plan is to grow Dublin out all the way to Galway and Cork? Not going to happen. Or do you expect us culchies to depopulate our homes and move to Dublin to appease your suburban insecurities?? When Dublin grows up, it wants to be like New York!:pac:

We have a choice, either grow up or grow out. We can't do both. Rather than sprawl Dublin outwards into once scenic areas like Clondalkin, our city planners should've built upwards some time ago and not wait until we run out of land. Regardless, I'd like to see a park built into the Docklands region to break up the monotony that comes with concrete jungles. It will also attract people to come and live there, which in turn brings in business.

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

What did you do to the other 30 buildings?

The other 58 according to wiki in the Paris Region:pac: