Some remedies for overcrowded city districts
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Roney. 'Some remedies for overcrowded city districts'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XII Part LXXXVII, 1906/1907, pp52-61Download Item:
Abstract:
The growth of true civilization, the extension of education,
and evolution of a better race, constitute national progress.
As cities contain the greater part of the population of any
country, they are always an important field for social reform.
The development of cities is a gradual process. As in
natural life, where this development altogether ceases, arrest
and decay inevitably ensue.
In civic improvement it is important to place qualitative
before quantitative progress. Lavish expenditure on large
municipal projects is not always a proof of finer civilization.
There are many reforms rather than innovations, which
when adopted in crowded city districts materially improve
them. Being economical, they are specially suited for those
cities where extension of the civic area is difficult, and
taxation high.
Decentralization of housing for the very poor is not easy
to carry out, owing to their tendency to crowd together,?
the tendency which creates slums in all cities,?the expense
of demolishing these, and the difficulty of dislodging those
who help to make them.
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Read Friday, February 22nd, 1907
Author: Roney, Miss
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Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandType of material:
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XII Part LXXXVII 1906/1907
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Dublin tenements, DecentralisationISSN:
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