McClements, Aidan (2023) Housing and Transportation in Dublin: A truly sustainable future? Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
With rapid urbanisation, environmental damage and climate change among the most important societal issues in the 21st century, cities must adapt to a new reality. Housing and transportation are two fields with important social and environmental effects, with many cities failing to deliver an adequate provision. Sustainable development is a term that is often used by governments but it is not always clear to what extent sustainability is implemented into policies. This research aims to analyse the incorporation of sustainability criteria into development plans in the fields of housing and transportation, focusing the case on Dublin, Ireland. This leads to the primary research question: “To what extent is sustainability criteria implemented into the Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028 within the key topics of transportation and housing?”. It is expected that the plan will take sustainability into account through its policies, but the policies may be too vague to spur necessary action. To answer this question, a qualitative analysis of various chapters of the development plan was carried out using Atlas.ti. This study highlighted that sustainability criteria is incorporated across the topics of climate action, housing and mobility in varying degrees depending on the criteria. It helped to identify sustainability criteria that were lacking throughout the policies, namely inclusiveness and affordability for climate adaptation, affordability and action on homelessness for housing, and transportation inclusiveness. This allowed for a number of concrete policy recommendations to be formulated, which may be of use to other cities globally. Possible further research could investigate the quality of implementation of policy of the development plan, and whether the targets have been met successfully.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Woltjer, J. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2024 11:00 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2024 11:00 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4470 |
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