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The critical culture of Irish architecture, so painstakingly developed over the last half century, is now under threat of starvation, writes Shane O\u2019Toole as he looks ahead from Dublin, 1974\u2026<\/h3>\nThe critical culture of Irish architecture, so painstakingly developed over the last half century, is now under threat of starvation, writes Shane O\u2019Toole as he looks ahead from Dublin, 1974\u2026<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Shane O\u2019Toole writes:<\/p>\n
The AR paid a visit to Dublin in 1974 and published a special edition devoted to the city as a case study in urbanism later that year. Dublin was chosen as the medium for putting forward a general proposition about an alternative vision of \u2018the modern city\u2019 both because, having lost out to Belfast in the national battle for 19th-century industrial development, it retained more of its earlier city pattern than any other metropolis and, despite a recent orgy of destruction, was about to come into funds comparable to those available to other cities in Europe\u2026..<\/p>\n