9-1 Venice Biennale - SubUrban to SuperRural

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9-1 Venice Biennale - SubUrban to SuperRural - dePaor architects

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2006 / August 30

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At current levels of output (20,000 per annum, on average), 500,000 new one-offs will be built in the landscape between now and 2030, consuming 250,000 acres and a road frontage equivalent to 4 times the coastline of Ireland that would take 10 days to drive past. It's just not sustainable, so why not change the planning laws to ban all footprint extension outside urban areas as and from 2006?

Currently 1,600,000 people live outside urban settlements. By 2030 there will be up to an additional 1,000,000 transient rural dwellers, mostly commuters. The countryside cannot absorb further random land-take. Surrogate typologies will develop.

Irish Architecture Foundation

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