Miles and miles of semi-ds and nothing else leads to:
– no street life and can’t walk anywhere, you need to use the car to do everything
– less community spirit (people drive in and out of the estate, don’t interact much)
-more traffic and commuting time
-smaller villages will never develop into towns, just one village Main Street than endless houses
We need to develop a new urbanism in Ireland
Nobody wants to live in a flat listening to next doors tele.
We have no idea or interest in building soundproof apartments ’cause builders attitude of ‘What the fuck. I’m not living here. A single line of bricks is cheaper.’
We need bottom up planning in this country and a systems way of thinking not the top down project based way we have now. Anyone offering a bottom up approach is getting my vote
3 comments
Miles and miles of semi-ds and nothing else leads to:
– no street life and can’t walk anywhere, you need to use the car to do everything
– less community spirit (people drive in and out of the estate, don’t interact much)
-more traffic and commuting time
-smaller villages will never develop into towns, just one village Main Street than endless houses
We need to develop a new urbanism in Ireland
Nobody wants to live in a flat listening to next doors tele.
We have no idea or interest in building soundproof apartments ’cause builders attitude of ‘What the fuck. I’m not living here. A single line of bricks is cheaper.’
We need bottom up planning in this country and a systems way of thinking not the top down project based way we have now. Anyone offering a bottom up approach is getting my vote