Meeting House Square and the hole
Happy St. Patricks day to one and all! Finally I have been given the time to do this post. I was in the Gallery of Photography behind the IFI a few weeks back checking out the Steve McCurry exhibition, the NatGeo. photographer who took the afghan girl portraits. At the time Meeting House Square was all...
Spatial Planning, Transport Planning, the Rational Planning Model. What are they….?
I came across this website today Qwiki on the visit Stockholm Facebook page and decided to give it a whirl with some terms from the planning world. I was really impressed by it! It managed to pick up many of the keywords that form many definitions and strands of thought in planning such as rational...
![[Picture] Ireland and UK snow covered](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Ireland_UK_Snow-290x290.jpg "[Picture] Ireland and UK snow covered")
[Picture] Ireland and UK snow covered
I was using @MarkLittle’s new news website Storyful.com, which i highly recommend you all take a look at it’s great! I came across this image recieved by Dundee University’s Satellite tracking station. It is very pretty. But look the sunny south east not covered in snow! Image: University of Dundee
SEI – Use of wind electricity up by 28%
The use of wind generated electricity in the Republic grew by 28 per cent on average, each year between 2005 and 2009, according to a new report from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. According to the report Energy in Ireland overall renewable energy, which includes biomass such as wood chip boilers and biofuels for transport,...
Detailed Geo-Spatial Mapping of Ireland, it’s here! The AIRO launching planning database
I advise you to go and look at the AIRO website, it is well worth a look and you can see various maps such as the one the left. Just the sort of thing I will be needing for my dissertation. Now to find out if they will give data to students for free or...
Must Read: Athlone to be developed by the Chinese
A friend of mine put me onto this earlier on today. The Chinese are seriously looking at Athlone for a exhibition ground for all the Chinese wares in a bid to break into the European market so investors and buyers do not have to travel across the world to China. It is well worth a...
Videos for the week: The GeoSpatial Revolution
The GeoSpatial Revolution is amazing! I cannot reccommend these videos more highly, 15 minutes of pur excitement of the possiblities of higher integration of GIS systesms into public service delivery and empowerment of citzens. I am very fond of the second episode where it showcases the work of The Food Trust an organisation fightting to...
Can we have this bicycle parking in Dublin?
I was on a recent inter rail trip around europe, something which i would highly recommend to anyone even remotely considering no matter what your age! But back to the point i witnessed some very interesting solutions to bicycle parking in cities, which i will show in some later short posts. I thought that Switzerland...
How would you protect the canal on your site?
Based on our recent visit to our masterplan site, i figured that this little humpback bridge deserved its own little post just for how pretty it looks! I believe one of our major planning issues for the site is how to treat the royal canal and the tranquility of it! Any suggestions on possible solutions...
Urban Art from my Euro trip
This is a little off topic from my usual but i thought it would be important to show off some of the urban art and extra little features of urban design which some of europes great cities had to offer me while i leisurely toured by train around europe this summer. Head below the break...
Interesting plans afoot in Sudan
My good friend put me onto this post the other night when I got back from holidays. I must say they certainly look pretty but my word this is actually where people will live! It is beyond me as to how someone could believe that structuring a city in the shape of either a rhino...
Developers to face high-rise curbs as council agrees plan
DEVELOPERS ARE facing severe restrictions on the construction of high-rise buildings in Dublin city following the introduction of the new Dublin City Development Plan next year. City councillors last night agreed to ban the construction of buildings above 28m (92ft) – about half the height of Liberty Hall – unless a statutory plan called a...
