So who would like to live in Ikea-land?
Two stories I was just dying to repost today which I discovered on planetizen! The first one being that IKEA are moving into the world of Urban Design with plans to create a new neighborhood in East London, without an IKEA store in sight! And two a genius tool has been developed by the plucky germans to to let...
Links i liked 25/02/2012
We’re fast approaching the last week of February, and man it has flown by! It was an interesting week, with plenty of controversy including shock decision by Bord Pleanala to refuse permission for the Children’s Hospital on the Mater site. The real cost of rural living compared to urban living Frank McDonald penned an interesting article...
Links I liked 13/02/2012
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog over the last week, totally skimping on the resolution to write two posts a week minimum! However I have been a wee bit busy, compiling my complete Dublin Transport Map the work in progress shots can be seen over on the tumblrverse City Parks Following on from...
Links I liked 30/01/2012
Well it’s a new week so why don’t we kick it off with a few of the links I liked in the last week. 1. The Green Party released a video and the document they submitted as part of the public consultation on the new Dublin City Council’s – Public Realm Strategy [PDF]. The green’s I...
What’s the story like? 1/2012
It’s a new year, its a new dawn and all that stuff and i need a job! Hello 2012, may you be a good one! Well kicked off the year with my first ever web application competition entry for the #Apps4Fingal competition. You may have see my entry, it’s UrbanRural and i’m going to give...
Happy New Year! 2011 The year of the Chinese, our massive population, continuing trends and more
As 2011 draws to a close I thought we would look back on this bumper year for the blog and pick out the top 10 most viewed posts of 2011 as per the analytics. But first I would like to thank everyone who has commented or helped me out during the year, it is much...
So there’s 7+ Billion People in the World!
According to the UN today, we symbolically reached the 7 Billion person mark. It just boggle the mind, that in just 11 short years since 2000 that another billion people have been added to the worlds population. So why not tell your story on 7 Billion Actions? In 1900 some 10% of people lived in cities, by...
Bag O’ Links 31/07/2011 Incinerators, Transport, Dublin Bus and Grangegorman
The week in planning this week saw some exciting large projects biting the dust and some rising from the ashes: Incinerators Indaver Ireland are pursuing a Judicial review of the Bord Pleanala decision to refuse permission for the planned Waster to Energy facility (Incinerator) at Ringaskiddy on the a number of grounds including strangely that the board made conclusive decision prior...
Bag’o Links “Independence Day”, Chinese ghost estates and more…
Well folks since it will be independence day by the time I publish this post Happy America day folks and for those in Canada belated Canada Day! That crap aside down to business, been some great links this week! Chinese ghost estates (cough) CITIES! Interesting piece by those plucky Aussies on dateline down under – Watch Chinas...
Regional Airports in Ireland, no longer subsidized?
After reading an article in the Irish Times entitled “Regional airport cuts ‘should be reconsidered’” by Lorna Siggens. Given that the article was about the the subsidization of PSO (public service obligation) air routes within Ireland and how a late decision by the former Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to cut costs by only subsidizing...
Things to look out for in 2011
Dublin from a different perspective – the planning, architect, developer and politician Was firing through the google reader when i came across this on Buck Planning, Redrawing Dublin – Paul Kearns and Motti Ruimy, available for €33 in bookshops. (It’s sold out on amazon, will hopefully be able to get a copy in town today)...
6,649 Visitors to DT106ers last year! Cheers folks!
First off folks, Happy New Year! We are in a new year, there hasn’t been any crazy biblical natural disaster wiping thousands off the earth yet, so a good year so far. To start on another good note, dt106ers.com is over a year old and in the last year from 2nd january 2010 – 2nd january 2011...
