The Department of Housing recently batted back the council’s plan, devised alongside residents, for how to bring part of the aged complex up to modern standards.
Sarah Rock is a lecturer in transport and urban design in TU Dublin. She is programme director of the MSc in Urban Regeneration and Development, a course due to be relaunched in January 2020.
From safe routes to schools to car-free zones, we need leadership from councils and parents alike, writes a TU Dublin transport and urban design lecturer.
Many councils say new apartment blocks must have between one and two car-parking spaces per home. This might sound sensible, but research says otherwise.
“Every time, we choose to switch on our car engines – to drop the kids to school, nip down to the shop or drive to work – we make this worse,” says TU Dublin lecturer Sarah Rock.
