Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City

1. Considerations and Conclusions

   1. Contested Urban Environments: Community Engagement and Struggle in Central Dublin

      • Michael Punch

      Pages 249-264

   2. Neoliberal Urban Policy and Challenging the Ideological Straightjacket

      • Andrew MacLaran, Sinéad Kelly

      Pages 265-276

2. Back Matter

   Pages 277-286

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This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism.

• Neoliberal
• financialisation
• planning
• property crash
• regeneration
• gentrification
• ideology
• austerity
• light-touch regulation
• resistance
• banking
• economy
• neoliberalism
• participation
• Policy
• transformation
• urban geography and urbanism
• world regional geography

• Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  Andrew MacLaran

• National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

  Sinéad Kelly

Katia Attuyer, University of St. Andrews, UK Paula Brudell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dáithí Downey, Dublin Region Homeless Executive, Ireland Linda Fox-Rogers, University College Dublin, Ireland Berna Grist, University College Dublin, Ireland Rory Hearne, National University of Ireland Philip Lawton, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Niall McCrory, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Enda Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Michael Punch, University College Dublin, Ireland Declan Redmond, University College Dublin, Ireland Brendan Williams, University College Dublin, Ireland

Policies and ethics