Modern Dublin
«Modern Dublin is an interesting and timely addition to the historical literature on Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. By highlighting the emergence of the nexus between politicians, property developers and protesters during this period, it will doubtless be widely read by those seeking to understand Ireland's economic and urban development in historical perspective.»
Shaun Mcdaid, History
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780199680450
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«Modern Dublin is an interesting and timely addition to the historical literature on Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. By highlighting the emergence of the nexus between politicians, property developers and protesters during this period, it will doubtless be widely read by those seeking to understand Ireland's economic and urban development in historical perspective.»
Shaun Mcdaid, History
«Hanna's ability to construct a series of nuanced arguments and sophisticated readings while making sense of what is a complicated and evolving narrative is one of the many strengths of this important book.»
Gary A. Boyd, American Historical Review
«a scholarly and serious contribution ... [it] will become a staple for contemporary Irish history studies.»
Ellen Rowley, Irish Arts
«Modern Dublin makes a significant contribution to scholarship on urban modernization in this period and it deepens our understanding of social, political and cultural change in the twentieth-century city.»
David Ellis, The Journal of Urban History
«traces the sociopolitical labyrinths of destruction and conservation»
Roy Foster, Books of the year 2014, The Irish Times