Williams, Brendan(University College Dublin. Planning and Environmental Policy, 2006-10)
Urban development policies have major and immediate impacts on the development and construction processes and have been the subject of major initiatives in recent years particularly in the housing and urban regeneration ...
Williams, Brendan(University College Dublin. Planning and Environmental Policy, 2006-10)
This paper investigates the land transformation process and growth pattern emerging in the functional Greater Dublin Area (GDA). The process is considered in the light of the growth pattern of the GDA, which is analysed ...
Recent development patterns have seen the urban region of Dublin evolve from a compact urban form towards a dispersed development pattern assisted by a shift in service-sector employment. In particular, this paper examines ...
The MOLAND project's aim is to provide spatial planning tools that can be used to assess, monitor and model the development of urban and regional environments. To date it has been applied to an area of over 70,000km2 across ...
This paper summarises the findings of a study to evaluate the use in Ireland of the different flood estimation methodologies that can be applied to urban or urbanising catchments. The study, undertaken as part of the Office ...
The current approach to stormwater management in Ireland requires that outflows from
new developments are restricted to greenfield values that would have occurred prior to
development. This typically involved the use of ...
The process of residential sprawl and accompanying car dependence has become
irreversible, to the point where the case for further investment in expensive urban
public transport systems has been undermined. Investments ...
This study examined the form, pattern and extractability of phosphorus (P) retained in alum sludge (an aluminium-containing drinking water treatment residual in dewatered cake form), which was used as substrate in laboratory ...
Surveys and inventories of the built environment have improved the understanding of the state of existing heritage structures and historic districts and assisted in their preservation by thorough and consistent documentation. ...