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Dublin City

  • 05-04-2003 7:13pm
    #1
    p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Might be of interest to people.

    Dublin had a proposed re-design in the early 1900s, which never went ahead. Plans were to move the City Centre west to capel st and have o connel st more of a secondary role. A few satellite towns were going to be creates in Swords & Tallaght, to try prevent urban sprawl, & an underground was going to be built.

    Shame it didn't happen, but fascinating reading. Guess what was going to be the centre piece of the city. :D

    Scanned in article:
    http://www.multiblah.com/stuff/dublin/

    - Kevin


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  • #2
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Very Hausmann. Possibly as a precursor to that plan was the setting up of the Wide Roads Commission which lliterally did what it said on the tin - knocked down buildings to widen the streets. It wasn't finished though; a testament to that is the bottleneck where Stephen's Green meets Baggot St. Not sure what happened but I assume either a better more ambitious plan came along (like this Hausmann style one) or they simply ran out of money.


  • #3
    PiE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Holy sh!t, my house would never have been built if that had've been completed.

    Which means my mothers mother would never have lived here. Which means my mother would probably never have met my father.
    Which means I wouldn't exist.

    Freaky.


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