Report aims to improve city's public spaces

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / November 25 2004: Report aims to improve city's public spaces

An Taisce has put it up to Dublin City Council's planners, architects and engineers to devise a consistent policy for public spaces in the city, with the aim of improving the quality of life for pedestrians in particular. But its report Dublinspirations, compiled largely by Kevin Duff, had just been launched last week when one of the items it sought to protect - the ornate canopy of the Olympia Theatre - was brought crashing down by a truck. The report proposed widening the congested footpath along the northside of Dame Street, not just to make life easier for pedestrians but also to give some protection to the Olympia's canopy, which will now have to be rebuilt.

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