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Dublin Frequent Transport Map complete and up for sale!

Colin Broderick — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:58:06 +0000

Just a quick post for this glorious Saturday on which Leinster are going to kick arse! My Frequent Transport Map is now up for sale over on my portfolio website – cbroderick.me/dublin_transport_map

The idea is you pay 5 euro and you get a digital copy of the map which you can print and do what you like with! And in return I will provide you with 1 year of free updates to the map, by reissuing the updated map to you any time fare information or routes change throughout the 1 year period from when you first purchase!

Hope you like it, and will buy some copies to help fund the still continuing complete Dublin Transport Map, showing all the routes!

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That’s it for today! Don’t forget you can get your daily dose of me through my twitter @Rusty1052 and your daily Irish Planning News courtesy the paper.li aggregator.

Not down with any of these new things? Or maybe you would like to offer me a job or use my services? Well sure just drop me an email at colinb@dt106ers.com. Will be great to hear from you! (Whoever you maybe).

Peace out planners!

So who would like to live in Ikea-land?

Colin Broderick — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:57:38 +0000

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 Urban Planners Visualize Traffic, Noise, And Pollution.

According to the Global Mail when complete the development will resemble:

…a reproduction of the sort of historic, chic downtown neighbourhoods you find in the far more central parts of London or Paris, not in this distant expanse of former dockyards and bloodless public-housing project. At its core are straight, car-free streets lined with simple townhouses and ground-floor-access flats in five-storey rows. In the alleyways behind – an imitation of the classic London backstreet, the mews – will be little two- and three-storey homes, all with direct access to the street.

An interesting concept I think, lets hope they don’t approach the built environment with the same mad dash for the sameness of IKEA furniture and they create something awesome to behold! If you take a gander at the promotional website and image below, it looks pretty sweet. It would also appear that there will be very little car access to the site too which is pretty sweet. (Click the image to explore the masterplan for the development)

Visualize traffic impacts – thanks to the germans

The other article is this incredibly cool visualization tool for ArcGIS to allow planners like us to visually see the impacts the increasing in traffic a new development may have! Pop on over to Fast.co Design to marvel at it!

No more guessing about what the impact of improvements to cities might be. Now urban planners have software to fully visualize what will happen when projects become reality.

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That’s it for today! Don’t forget you can get your daily dose of me through my twitter @Rusty1052 and your daily Irish Planning News courtesy the paper.li aggregator.

Peace out planners!

[Movie Thursday] Brendan Finn on BRT

Colin Broderick — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:30:40 +0000

Movie thursday might have fallen a bit to the wayside in the last few weeks but it’s back with a bang! First up we have Brendan Finn, who is a wonderful speaker, talking about Bus Rapid Transit and what it could do for your city in this case, Dublin. I first saw Brendan speak when I was doing my thesis at a CILT Event. I was blown away by the work on Buses with a high level of service, it formed quiet a significant part of the assumptions I made during my study as to the levels of service that could be provided on the orbital network.

Brendan makes some key points about Dublin; NAMA will hold a awful lot of sway when it comes to future transit development and Dublin is completely lacking in terms of Orbital services (finally nice to see it recorded in a video!). So I urge you take a few minutes and watch the video below! Presentation Slides to follow along with.

The other presentations are available at – SPATIAL PLANNERS GRADUATE NETWORK SET THE FUTURE PLANNING AGENDA FOR DUBLIN CITY

To Norway

A country whose population recently reached that epic figure of 5 million people, which Ireland ain’t far behind. So keeping the transport theme alive in all its tilt-shift glory, I leave you with Norway a country almost as spread out as Ireland.

Tiny Capital - https://vimeo.com/39470129 (in case the video does not work)

Good News! I’m not dead. I shall be speaking out at Dublinked

Colin Broderick — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:14:55 +0000

Bit of a dramatic title that but, I have been missing for the last while getting settled into my new job and the whirlwind of change that has kicked off. Anyway enough about me! It’s been an exciting few weeks as regards planning in Ireland goes, with significant developments in terms of the Children’s Hospital being refused permission, the Mahon tribunal and the fallout associated with that and of course who could forget Phil Hogans amazingly well received Household charge.

I’m speaking at Dublinked

But that’s not the sort of news you want to hear is it? I thought not. I will be speaking alongside Martin Charlton, Richard Cantwell and Bruce Mc Cormack at an upcoming Dublinked Event – “Dublinked- IRLOGI Spatial Data”

I shall be chatting away about my experience of consuming the various open data sets that have been made available by the most wonderful folks in the Dublin Local authorities and of course the National Transport Authority. My experience had been building the UrbanRural – built on heritage web application to help you find your local built heritage without having to visit a myriad of organisations websites. The other piece I will be discussing is the mapping of the NaPTAN data from the National Transport Authority which was made available on this very blog here.

So if that sounds interesting to you or maybe you’d like to meet me in the flesh, AMAZING! You should come along on the 19th April @10:00 in Dun Laoghaire its FREE register your spot on the Event Page

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Peace out planners!

IPI President on the RTE News at 1

Colin Broderick — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:23:30 +0000

Brendan Alan the IPI President in on the News at One show on RTE RAdio 1 - http://www.rte.ie/news/news1pm/

In case you missed Brendan Today the sound byte is available here – Irish Planning Institute on RADIO 1

Movie Thursday – Networked Society and Fancy buying a village, FR?

Colin Broderick — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:00:10 +0000

Well its that time of the week again and we have two special films for you today, the first is an epic discussion by erricosson on networked society and their contributions to the Smarter Cities initiative. So sit back and enjoy some inspiration!

Networked Society - Ericsson

The documentary ‘Thinking Cities’ deals with one of the most dramatic societal trends happening today: urbanization. The world population is expected to soar to more than 9 billion people by 2050, with roughly 70 percent living in cities. At the same time, Information Communications Technology (ICT) is extending its reach.

Fancy buying a village? Only €330,000

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That’s it for today! Don’t forget you can get your daily dose of me through my twitter @Rusty1052 and your daily Irish Planning News courtesy the paper.li aggregator.

Peace out planners!

Links i liked 25/02/2012

Colin Broderick — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:45:55 +0000

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 on how he believes the recent attention surrounding the septic tank charge, is in fact hiding the bigger issue at stake, that urban dwellers are cross subsidizing rural-dwellers.

Development levies by local authorities reveal a different story. The average levy for a new house in the countryside amounts to €9,300, with no charge for sewerage, whereas the purchase price of a similar-sized house in an urban area would include a much higher levy of €28,650 – of which €5,350 is for sewerage

New Irish Addresses

I came across a very interesting tweet from Alice Charles of work done by James Nix on the spread of new rural addresses produced between 2005-2007. They’re really just everywhere! I’d love to see the new roads overlaid on the new addresses too, certainly presents a different picture to the Ireland you have in your minds eye.

Just look at the number & spread of new addresses between 2005-2007 in rural Ireland. #oneoffhousing #spatialplanning architecturalassociation.ie/blog/sge/addit…

— Alice Charles (@alicecharles) February 25, 2012

Geography of Business

Next up is an amazing set of slides from Duncan Smith’s blog Urban Geographics. They show a general bias of offices conglomeration slightly to the west of central london. Well worth a look as he draws on transport models as a way to draw conclusions as to why some of the clustering has occurred.

Thinking of doing Spatial Planning?

A deadly little brochure type thing Micheal from of @MentalPlanners did over the Christmas period, chapeau sir!

Open publication – Free publishing – More architecture

The New weekly section: Movie Thursday

This week saw the launch of my new weekly section to give you the inspirational kick I often find I need by the time thursday roles around. So sit back and enjoy the opening edition with TedX talk from the Strong Towns Blog.

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That’s it for today! Don’t forget you can get your daily dose of me through my twitter @Rusty1052 and your daily Irish Planning News courtesy the paper.li aggregator.

Peace out planners!

Movie Thursday: StrongTowns at TedX

Colin Broderick — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:40:40 +0000

This is a must watch for any spatial planner out there. We certainly really do need to take a long hard look at out urban environment and decide what are our priorities. So please take the few minutes to listen to what Chuck Marohn has to say, it’s well worth your time!

This tweet below is from @PPS_Placemaking retweeted by @doccer

“We did not build this park because we were wealthy, we became wealthy because we built parks like this.” @CLMarohn youtu.be/6XRjatW_N9M

— PPS (@PPS_Placemaking) February 22, 2012

I believe Dublin is making some form of an effort, to at least make a plan to better utilise our public spaces within the city, so long as they actually follow through on a thorough implementation of the public realm strategy. Unfortunately more often than not many of the more recent housing developments in suburban areas have been lackluster in that many housing estates, just have flat piece of green with some shoddy planting (maybe even none at all). The kind of crap below, what is the function of that space other than, we didn’t build any houses on it? One plus is it doesn’t have a fence around it.

Right I shall shut up now, enjoy the video below it’s well worth the 15 mins.

If you liked that their are plenty more interesting topics discussed over at Strong Towns Blog, do check it out.

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Peace out planners!

Links I liked 13/02/2012

Colin Broderick — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:45:03 +0000

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 the Public Realm Strategy submission by the greens, a friend of mine sent me on a link to a wonderful artcile by National Geographic on the public parks that adorn the streets of Paris:

Urban Downtime
The City of Light is also a city of green, with a panoply of parks and gardens where Parisians rest and rejuvenate.

Wind Farms

The Guardian DATA Blog has again outdone itself by producing a map of all the windfarms located within the UK. I plan on taking their data and Irish Windfarms to the map, if anyone wants to help out that would be fantastic, just let me know via twitter or email.

Copenhagen

Copenhagenize this weeks carriers an interesting discussion on the new congestion ring being proposed to reduce the volumes of traffic in central copenhagen

Human Transit has arrived!

Finally, amazon got off there backside and shipped my copy of Jarrett Walker’s new book, Human Transit. Initial impressions are its fantastic, certainly a comprehensive pocket guide for those interested in transport planning and how anyone can get involved in the debate and brush away the technical mumbo jumbo. I shall be writing a review of it in the coming weeks with any luck so, stay tuned!

Some Charity – Love Dublin Festival

A friend of mine asked me to put on note up regarding St Vincent De Pauls upcoming event Love Dublin Festival – Checkout the Facebook event for more info by clicking the image below.

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Peace out planners!

Links I liked 30/01/2012

Colin Broderick — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:09 +0000

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 think should be commended for the numerous videos they’ve released lately! Check it out:

Open publication – Free publishing – More college green

2. Dublin Bus allowed people to travel for free (on some buses) after the collection system broke down on some buses

3. I did a quick write up on my experiences with Dublins Leapcard so far at Leapcard has still got some living up to do!

4. Vincent Browne, love him or hate him, he stuck it to the man like only he can. Vinne was featured on the Strong Towns Blog (a fantastic resource) in a fairly honest outside commentary on what happened Ireland.

5. The Ulster Rugby fans have something to cheer about, Ravenhill has been given planning permission to renovate the stadium for the first time and increase the capacity.

6. Inevitably, Bord Pleanala announced they have delayed making a decision on the National Children’s Hospital on the Mater site, due in part to the complexity of the application.

Keep in touch

Get your daily dose of me through my twitter @Rusty1052, your daily Irish Planning News courtesy the paper.li aggregator.

Peace out planners!