|
|
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Green and Blue walk: eco threads for Dublin city dublin |
environment |
event notice
 Saturday August 09, 2008 16:11 by dunk - Dublin ECG (eco city group) fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk
 in connection with Dublin's Metamorphosis 2.30 meet at CHQ (previously called Stack A) in Dublins Docklands, walk along a proposed urban greenway for Dublin city, along the Royal Canal, Botanic Gardens, visit urban food production zones, mountjoy linear park, Blessington basin, city green zones, finishing in Dublin Castle 7pm. The Botanic Spine is an architectural project for Dublin city in Ireland. The proposal is for an 18-kilometre ecological corridor, or greenway, for Dublin city, which is to be called the "botanic spine". The spine is a circular loop through the city that links up the river Liffey, the royal and grand canals, the botanic gardens and Europe's largest city park, the phoenix park. The spine is a "pearl necklace" type of park with the narrow line of the canal and the green space along its edges threading through a series of pocket parks, which house public buildings of interest. The Liffey will be spanned by a public walkway, alongside the rail bridge, through the soon to be developed lands around Heuston station and by an adjustable bridge spanning the river on the east side. EASA was set up in 1981 by a ginger group led by colourful Edinburgh-based architect Richard Murphy and held its first gathering in Liverpool during a bitter and prolonged docks strike. Part of the motivation behind it was to connect architecture students with the real world of conflict and social deprivation. related vids: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=fuspey&p=r related infos and ideas: accompanying PDF of greenway proposal: http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/feb2007/botanic_spi...e.pdf What are Greenways? Heritage Ireland website: http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/walkways/project7.html Green corridors in cities : much info, pix and links to this topic http://easa.antville.org/stories/960542/ Adapt Or Die (how to build a sustainable world) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87770 past Dublin Greenway actions: Dublin City Greenway Cycle (the first bikeride) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/69929 Dublin : first Greenway cycle of 2006 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75672 Food and tree planting along greenway: greening the city - tree planting weekend http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74481 new community garden up and running in Phibsboro http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74524 Dolphin's Barn community garden under threat http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75438 Bringing Nature To Mans Domain http://www.indymedia.ie/article/69689 EASA and ark related: Architecture students gather in Dublin and Letterfrack (Irish Times) http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0807/1....html EASA 2008 http://www.easa008.ie/ EASA blog http://easa.antville.org/
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp1076.wav |
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
|
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 2 1Very Interesting Presentation from Kevin Danaher of Global exchange:
"The system is crashing"
Caption: Video Id: Js3AxfWP84U Type: Youtube Video
Embedded video Youtube Video
outlines ideas about a greener city and park in Sheriff Street, part of architectural thesis proposal 2005: CATALYST @ Botanic Spine
related vids:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=fuspey&p=r
and related first 40 minutes of last Wednesday evenings radio show from CLIMATE CAMP 2008 which explores further ideas about how to construct sustainable communities and what they will look like
http://stream.plentyfact.net/climatecamp-podcasts/wednesday_broadcast02.mp3
Embedded audio: http://stream.plentyfact.net/climatecamp-podcasts/wednesday_broadcast02.mp3