Architectural historian
The 5k lockdown has demonstrated the enduring appeal of the city as a place where people come together. A city is more than just a collection of buildings. It is also the spaces in-between. It is a public place where people linger, strolling about chatting and people watching. COVID-19 has exposed the inequality that exists in our mobility measures in our cities.
I posed the same question to architects across the country –
how can we make our cities work?
Dublin
Dominic Stevens, Director of JFOC Architects
Let s understand Dublin as a collection of neighbourhoods, not as a central business district surrounded by sprawling dormitory suburbs as was foreseen in the 1970s and 80s. In the great cities of Europe there are people living on every street and people working on every street. Shops at ground level, cafes on corners, daytime and night time activity. In Dublin this high-density lived-in city should stretch from the centre out to the surrounding u