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Hinterland
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proposal is to develop the hinterlands of Ireland’s national motorway network,
planned under Transport 21, for housing so that everybody can live sustainably
in the country but still work in towns. Creating individual plots of 1.5
hectares within 3.3km of the motorway would support a house, vegetables and
bio-fuel crops to support a local car culture that links to hubs, whence people
commute to towns by bus on a motorway/dual carriageway QBC.
Investment in infrastructure to 2030 will be
concentrated on the building of new motorways, a fact that reflects and
reinforces Ireland’s car-dependent culture. This concentration on personal
freedom supports the other national obsession-owning ‘a house on a piece of
land’. Together these aspirations have generated unsustainable housing patterns
- one-offs, ribbon development and suburban clusters - that are now
characteristic of the Irish landscape. A reevaluation of the land, moving away
from cash-crop housing towards an evolving productive landscape, makes possible
the sustainable interdependence of a repopulated rural hinterland and the road
network that connects Ireland’s urban centres.
proposal is to develop the hinterlands of Ireland’s national motorway network,
planned under Transport 21, for housing so that everybody can live sustainably
in the country but still work in towns. Creating individual plots of 1.5
hectares within 3.3km of the motorway would support a house, vegetables and
bio-fuel crops to support a local car culture that links to hubs, whence people
commute to towns by bus on a motorway/dual carriageway QBC.
Investment in infrastructure to 2030 will be
concentrated on the building of new motorways, a fact that reflects and
reinforces Ireland’s car-dependent culture. This concentration on personal
freedom supports the other national obsession-owning ‘a house on a piece of
land’. Together these aspirations have generated unsustainable housing patterns
- one-offs, ribbon development and suburban clusters - that are now
characteristic of the Irish landscape. A reevaluation of the land, moving away
from cash-crop housing towards an evolving productive landscape, makes possible
the sustainable interdependence of a repopulated rural hinterland and the road
network that connects Ireland’s urban centres.
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