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Girls just want to have fun: How can we design public space for teenage girls?

In this article, Sinéad Hickey discusses gender mainstreaming in urban spaces through the lense of teenager and women in sport. Sinéad explores the nature of spaces provided for teenagers, the disparity in provision for genders, and the issues affecting teenage girls use of these public spaces in particular.

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Present Tense

Urban milk

All Dubliners accept that the fair city is inseparable from James Joyce's Ulysses. Yet Joyce's novel is saturated with a hidden ingredient: milk. This industry is an essential part of our national image, but its relationship with the fabric and women of Dublin has been largely forgotten. What if we redrew Joyce’s Dublin through milk?

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One Good Idea

Sleeping giants of straw and reed

Reflecting on her time spent thatching Irish homes, Alice Bowler considers what an endangered craft might teach us about care, materials and building in step with the land.

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Working Hard / Hardly Working

Modernism is Almost All Right #7: Après Le Modernisme, Le Déluge? Throughlines in French industrial legacies

Jonathan F. Bell examines the continuities between pre-Modern industrial architecture, Modern contributions to industrial typologies, and current adaptations of these buildings in a postindustrial landscape.

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Architecture Ireland 319

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #319 focuses on the theme of 'public space'.

urban planning, urbanism, shared space, public space, Cork, coronavirus, covid, place making, student accommodation, school, residential, urban, civic, school, education, Valerie Mulvin, Niall McCullough, Architectural Graduate, book review
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Architecture in Ireland - vol. 1, no. 2

Editor: Tomás O’Beirne.
Journal
€ 5.95 

First published in 1978, Architecture in Ireland was a magazine which featured ‘news, views and reviews’, architecturally significant buildings, and descriptions and illustrations of proposed developments.

The Gold Medal, RIAI Awards, Land Prices, RIBA Directory, Kinsale Architectural Heritage, Is this A Record, Building and Engineering Claims, W. T. Major and A. Ransom, Housebuilding Slowdown, Housing Needs, Assessment, Sam Stephenson, Brian Traynor, Gerry Flynn, Paul Richardson, Brouagh Moriarty, Ove Arup and Partners, J. A. Kenny and Partners, John Sisk and Sons, John Donat Photography, RIAI, P. Twamley, J. McCullough & Partners, J. V. Tierney & Partners, S. Monahan & Partners,
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The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II)

Author: Myles Wright
Book
€ 7.95 

The second of the two volumes, The Dublin Region: Advisory Plan and Final Report (Part II) examines the social, economic and physical resources of county Dublin and its environs with a view to guide the use of land and public and private building works for the following thirty years.‍

Occupation, employment, economic growth, future population, the mountains, housing need, forecast, prediction, overcrowding, unfit, port development, dublin city, dublin county, roads, road improvement, transport need, rail network, metropolitan dublin, dodder, tolka, liffey, population growth
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Research, Discipline, and Practice: UCD Urban Design Symposium 2023

Editors: Michael K. Hayes and Alan Mee.
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€ 0.00 

Proceedings of the first UCD Urban Design Symposium which took place on 31 March 2023.

Urban Design, UCD Urban Design Symposium, Irish Urban Design, Climate Adaptation in Urban Design, Housing Crisis Ireland, Economic Pressures on Development, Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022, Resilient Design Curriculum, Urban Design Accreditation, City Urbanist Role, Urban Area Plans, Historic Urban Landscapes, Sustainable Urban Development, Urban Design Theory, Urban Morphology, Urban Design Research, Interdisciplinary Urban Design, Urban Design Codes, Retrofitting Suburbs, Pedestrian Connectivity Analysis, Creative Land Use, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Public Space Design, Community Engagement in Urban Design, Compact Growth Model, Urban Design in Practice, Master Planning, Historic Irish Towns, Urban Design Education.
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RIAI Bulletin 58

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

Notices, standards, circular, newsletter, committee, competition, conference, course, lecture, planners, membership, RIAI, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, AAI, Architectural Association ireland, practise notice, UCD, University College Dublin, Bolton Street, concrete, materiality, design, detail, specification, Gold Medal, Annual Conference, Quantity Surveyor, Burke Kennedy Doyle, The Organon Factory, Nevvyphonn, Ailwee Caves, Ailwee Caves Access Building, Ballyvaughan, Andrez Wejchert, Bord na Mona, Baggot Street
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Architecture Ireland 307

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #307 focuses on the theme of ‘gender’.

Practising in plain sight: Celebrating the first women architects, Gender in spatial planning: From feminist urbanism to fair-shared city, Making our place: Introducing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender geographies, RIAI Women in Architecture 2019: An Interview with Sheila O’Donnell, Materialtiy and masculinity: ‘Ordinary’ men and interior design, A portrait of domesticity, Climate Change | Housing | Placemaking - RIAI Conference 2019, Architecture + Building Expo, Tabharfaimíd féin an samhradh linn - Remembering Sarah Cogan (1968-2019), Looking and reflecting: Recalling Mies van der Rohe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Woodlawn House, Dublin, Carson & Crushell Architects, A pair of us in it, Teaching, type and topography: An Interview with Simply Architecture, The Meditation Act 2017, Hospital visit/revisit, a e i o u: watercolours by Tom de Paor, Marion Mahony Griffin: Discuss, The relationship between a person and an architecture, Taoiseach’s Residence and State Guest House (competition), Simply Architecture, Manisha Shodhan Basu, Tom de Paor, Eileen Grey, Eleanor Butler, Florence Fulton Hobson, Máirín Hope, Kathleen Carroll, Anne (Nancy) Strahan, Mary Doyle, Maura Shaffrey, Deirdre O’Connor, Arthur Gibson
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RIAI Bulletin 55

Editor: J. Owen Lewis.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Beginning in 1972, the RIAI Bulletin was a monthly newsletter to inform Institute members of the wide range of matters with which the RIAI was involved.

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Architecture Ireland 321

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #321 focuses on the theme of 'wood'.

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Architectural Survey 1955

Editor: Luan P. Cuffe.
Journal
€ 4.75 

Architectural Survey was an annual review of contemporary architecture in Ireland, which ran from 1953-1972.

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Architecture Ireland 304

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #304 focuses on the theme of ‘local authority’.

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2ha: the journal of suburban design #12

Editor: Michael K. Hayes.
Journal
€ 4.00 

2ha #12 considers the power of local, national, and international governance in determining suburban morphology. Three essays focus on the multiple means by which bureaucratic structures and political ideologies control the ways, rules, and regulations in which suburban development takes place.

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Architecture Ireland 272

Editor: Sandra O'Connell
Journal
€ 9.50 

Architecture Ireland is the journal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Issue #272 focuses on the theme of 'the year in architecture'.

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UCD Architecture 2007

Editors: Brian Ward, Pierre Jolivet, Gerry Hayden.
Book
€ 0.00 

An annual yearbook featuring staff and student work from the UCD School of Architecture.

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The Bicycle: A study of efficiency, usage, and safety

Author: Dr. D. F. Moore.
Book
€ 7.95 

Financed by Irish Raleigh Ltd., this report is a general study of the efficiency, usage, and safety of the bicycle as a mode transport. As well as bicycle safety, this study considers housing estate layout in suburban areas and how it can minimise the adverse impact of motorised traffic on urban neighbourhoods.

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Post Industrial

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

Post Industrial features a series of essays discussing the physical and material world of Irish industrial settlements; how these villages as worked a social spaces, while at the same time highlighting future conservation priorities.

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UTOPIA 7

Editor: Miriam Delaney.
Book
€ 0.00 

UTOPIA 7 is a published a study of utopian settlements in Ireland by students in the Dublin School of Architecture.

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The Sprawling Newspaper

Editors: Michelle Delea, Sarah Mulrooney, Niamh Hurley, Anastasiya Karabanava, Darren O’Connor, Grace Kiernan.
Book
€ 0.00 

The Sprawling Newspaper emerged during the production of The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway, a documentary film which centres around a public campaign against the B.K.S. traffic plan for Cork in 1968.

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Regional Planning: a review of regional studies

Author: Henk van der Kamp.
Book
€ 7.95 

Carried out by An Foras Forbartha, this study was conducted to develop linkages between local, regional, and national planning in Ireland.

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