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This thesis explores differing approaches to urban conservation in the cities of Dublin and Stockholm. It examines the impact of Central Government policies that have addressed directly or had indirect impact upon urban conservation in Dublin City since the 1950s. It further reviews the evolution of approaches to urban conservation embodied in, and implemented through local-authority urban planning policies. Also, it explores the contribution and role played by the voluntary sector in promoting and effecting urban conservation. The research broadens its scope by providing a cross- cultural comparison of contemporary conservation policies in Dublin and Stockholm. The study explores the impact of cultural and political ideas underlying varying approaches to conservation policy and its implementation. This enables sharper focus to be given to establishing the basis upon which certain urban elements become deemed worthy of conservation and the manner in which such evaluations and appraisals have tended to change over time. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

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This thesis is centrally concerned with the relationship between capital, the state and disadvantaged inner-city communities. The overall objective of this research is to review the structural forces underlying the recent and dramatic transformation of inner Dublin and to examine how disadvantaged inner-city communities have fared under an entrepreneurial-planning regime which has come to adopt policies of place promotion and competitiveness on the one hand and, on the other, has employed a rhetoric of holistic regeneration and formal participatory structures promising to embrace community goals. The theoretical approach for this thesis drew on two main strands; gentrification and entrepreneurial governance. Theories of gentrification were employed to examine the ways in which capital uses the built environment to make a profit and to examine the impacts on the social profile of inner-city neighbourhoods resulting from uneven temporal and spatial capital flows. In many cities, governments play a crucial role in initiating and bolstering urban regeneration. A central focus of this research was therefore an examination of the role of the state. The literature on urban entrepreneurial governance examines the recent shift by states to adopt more entrepreneurial or market-led approaches to managing and shaping the city, often involving policies of place promotion and partnership with the private sector. Furthermore, it traces how new structures and instruments of decision making have been established whereby formal structures of local government have often been supplanted by networks of non-elected decision makers. The empirical research employed both qualitative and quantitative methods, drew on a wide range of primary and secondary sources and adopted a case-study approach in order to chart the extent of physical and social transformation and to review the impacts of different plans and policies on inner city communities. These case studies focused on a number of geographic scales including the delimited inner-city area, an inner-city quadrant and an inner-city locale, with the more localised case studies allowing for a more in-depth examination of recent housing and planning policies. Among the methods employed were participative research, interviewing, focus groups, land-use observation surveys, questionnaire surveys and archival research ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

Air pollution in Dublin was studied for the period from 1980 to 1996. The factors which contribute to air pollution were investigated, and the nature of particulate air pollution is discussed. The trends in air pollution, and the Government interventions in relation to fuel usage, and air quality were evaluated. All non-accidental mortality for residents of Dublin County Borough was studied for the same period. The study covers 16.75 years, or 6119 days. A total of 80,307 deaths used in the study. Giving an average of 13.2 deaths per day. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

This thesis is centrally concerned with changes in state policies. The research aims to trace the evolution of urban regeneration policies in two different geographical contexts, paying attention to both temporal and geographical variations in governmental approaches to regeneration. The study aims to review the manner in which the growing intensification of the neoliberal agenda has differently affected the process of urban regeneration in Paris and Dublin. The aim is to account for variations in the global neoliberal project. This research seeks to make a contribution to the development of urban studies by offering empirical evidence of path-dependency in the evolution of regeneration policies. The study also strives to identify how different socio-political ideological contexts have shaped the ability of indigenous communities to change the outcomes of regeneration. The overall objective is to discuss how powerful socially disadvantaged communities are in influencing the processes of regeneration. The research reviews the manner in which community input has been achieved through involvement in formal structures and through informal mechanisms such as community protest. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the urban environment, more specifically its planning and governing processes through the empirical investigation of the notion of governance. The first part of the thesis provides the theoretical and methodological research frameworks, focusing on continental and non-continental European context. Emphasis is placed on notions embedded within the concept of governance, primarily decision-making and multifaceted actions of multiple actors (participation, representation and accountability) as well as institutional changes and rearrangements (processes of governing, networking and partnerships). ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

This research is concerned with Irish urban planning; in particular, it investigates how the neoliberal consensus was adopted on the political agenda in the 1980s by infusing economic policy at the central state (national government) level. Moreover, by establishing the local government context for planning, this research explores the manner in which the neoliberal agenda has been thrust on local authorities and explores how urban planning has become a component of the entrepreneurial city, and how this new approach has challenged traditional planning in the common good. The role of An Bord Pleanala as an independent body will also be assessed and examined. The research problem is operationalised through the specifics of a case study; however, the study is limited to the four local authorities of Dublin. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

Dublin city?s economic expansion and retraction have a cyclical effect with the housing market which is also impacted by the migration patterns of citizens from new member states of the European Union. Little is known about this group?s strategies, choices, constraints, and opportunities in the Irish housing system. Applying a transnational element to the housing pathways approach, a metaphorical construct which expands upon the housing careers concept by featuring the subjective experiences of a cohort as the reference for analysis, this thesis outlines the housing paths of 31 Polish residents of Dublin. The modified framework draws attention to the phenomenon that relates to the cohort; a group of motivated, educated, and professional individuals who exercise their agency across geographic boundaries over time. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

In recent years, Western countries have received Pakistanis as religious fanatics and detrimental to national as well as international safety and politics. Pakistani communities in diaspora have, in turn, received negative attention for controversies surrounding religious activities and a noted lack of integration into host societies. In Ireland and the US, Pakistanis are faced with different challenges due to the migration histories of Pakistanis into these countries, the role of religion in Irish and American societies, and how ideas of the ?nation? have affected individual migrant lives. While the Pakistani diaspora is well researched as one of the largest diasporic communities in the world, little is known about these populations in Dublin and Boston. This study fills the gap in literature by examining the experiences of young Pakistani men through their engagement with family, religion, and identity. In comparing the experiences of young Pakistani men in Dublin and Boston, this study explores the heterogeneity of the Pakistani diaspora, an issue that has been largely overlooked in diaspora studies. This study looks at how young Pakistani men between the ages of 18 and 35 position themselves in relation to ethnicity, religion, and nationality. By examining the lived experiences of first- and second-generation Pakistani Muslim as well as non-Muslim men, the thesis considers migrant generational differences, the impact of religious affiliations, as well as the development of individual identities in the Irish and American contexts. The study draws upon diaspora theory, specifically the concepts of boundary maintenance, homeland, and cultural borderland, to look at how these men negotiate the native and host cultures. To investigate the heterogeneity of the Pakistani diaspora, the research design sampled individuals from different sub-ethnic groups, religions, sexualities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. A series of semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and participant observation notes were used to account for the individuals? lived experiences. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

This thesis investigates the reform of Dublin Corporation and its activities from 1840 until the early 1860s. Nineteenth-century Dublin in particular has been overlooked in Irish historiography and, consequently, in general urban histories. The two main works on Dublin are Hill?s Patriots to Unionists (1997) and Daly?s Dublin: The Deposed Capital (1985). Hill covers Dublin city politics from the seventeenth-century until 1840, during which time Protestant freemen in effect controlled the city, while Daly explores Dublin from 1860 until the early twentieth-century, a period throughout which a large portion of Protestants had settled in the suburbs and Catholic nationalists dominated the city council. Dublin in the period between 1840 and 1860 has never been fully researched. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie ; Print thesis water damaged as a result of the Berkeley Library Podium flood 25/10/2011

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This thesis investigates Dublin merchants in the early seventeenth century within the framework of economic, social and political changes that characterised the period. Although sources were hard to come by in some areas of research, by adopting a thematic approach it was possible to utilise the findings from a wide range of extant material and reconstruct the various strands that made Dublin and its merchant community stand out in early seventeenth-century Ireland. Chapter one provides an economic backdrop to the thesis and shows that in the first four decades of the seventeenth century Dublin emerged as the most affluent port in Ireland in a period that experienced unprecedented economic growth. Although the merchant community of Dublin was previously dismissed as insignificant, chapter two illustrates that Dublin merchants, the majority of whom were Catholic, permeated every area of public life in the city. ; TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) refers to the identification and evaluation of the positive and negative effects of actions at a higher decision making level than development projects such as programmes, plans and policies (PPPs). Its usefulness lies in its ability to aid decision making, enhance the effectiveness of project environmental assessment and ultimately contribute towards Sustainable Development. It is for these characteristics that the concept is currently the subject of a European Union draft Directive 'on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment' [96/0304 (COD)] or SEA Directive. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

In the following chapters I have created a biographical portrait of Todd as a Tractarian at Trinity College, Dublin and studied the variety and range of his texts which contributed to making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. In the first instance I have taken note of the argument that the Church of Ireland was little more than a ?sect? by the end of 1869, the year of Todd?s death. Analysis of eighteenth century political ideology, as preached in sermons, contributes to this view of ?sect?-like thinking connected to the defence of the state and the mission to convert the native population to a minority church. I have taken up the idea that the introduction of a national system of education in 1831, at primary level, followed by his experience of founding a new Irish secondary school with friends, called St. Columba?s, and finally his contribution to the 1853 Government Report on Trinity, all generated a balanced and modest contribution to change, as seen in his texts and letters. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie