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Author Boyd, Gary A

Title Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Negation: The General Post Office and a Collapsing of Time; 2 Power: Are You Getting the Light? Ardnacrusha, the Rural Electrification Scheme and Illuminating Ireland's Peripheries; 3 Health: Sanatoria and the Search for an Irish Paimio; 4 Bus Transportation -- Córas Iompair Éireann and Michael Scott; 5 Media: America at Home -- The RTÉ Television Centre; 6 Aviation: Into the West -- Rineanna and the Jumbo Jet
7 Education: 'My father has got a tractor shed like this' -- The Doyles, the Concrete Frame and the Democratisation of Education8 Telecommunications: Infrastructural Adhocism; 9 Roads: 'We must have motorways' -- Ireland, the Highway and Modernity; 10 Data: Clouds and Precipitation; Index
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Subject Architecture and society -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Architecture and society -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architecture and society
Infrastructure (Economics)
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author McLaughlin, John
ISBN 9781351927505
1351927507