The reconstruction of Dublin
Dubliners were promised a sustainable city, with underground public transport and ‘world class’ public spaces. They got severe homelessness, traffic-choked suburbs, and a city with nobody in charge. Will economic recovery make the capital work better?
Thirty years on from the Dublin Crisis Conference, Frank McDonald claims that the capital is in crisis again. The developers are back - but there is homelessness, suburbanisation and bad planning. Video: Bryan O'Brien
Thirty years ago, in February 1986, a group of us got together to stage the Dublin Crisis Conference. The city was in bits, chewed up by property speculators and road engineers, and desperately needed to be saved from the forces that were destroying it.
