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In the wake of the property crash in Ireland, one of the more intriguing questions pertaining to the property-development policies pursued in Dublin city from the late 1990s through to the mid-2000s concerns the manner in which the Irish state managed to proceed with a highly political neoliberal urban-development agenda resulting in significant negative consequences for working-class residents in Dublin’s inner city. It is a question with which those communities targeted by successive neoliberal interventions in the urban realm attempted to grapple throughout the property development boom as they observed the growing discrepancy between the stated objectives of the Irish state’s urban-regeneration policies and the way in which the policies in question were subsequently implemented. This question attains an added significance in light of the fact that the implementation of these regeneration projects was mediated through new governance structures within which inner-city communities were invited to participate with a flourish of elaborate commitments about the role and standing that they could expect to exercise therein.
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Brudell, P., Attuyer, K. (2014). Neoliberal ‘Regeneration’ and the Myth of Community Participation. In: MacLaran, A., Kelly, S. (eds) Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377050_13
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