A. MacLaren & S. Kelly 
Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City 
Reshaping Dublin

This book reviews the character and impacts of ‘actually-existing’ neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism.

Table of Content

PART I: SETTING THE CONTEXT Introduction; Andrew Mac Laran 1. Neoliberalism: The Rise of a Bad Idea; Andrew Mac Laran and Sinéad Kelly 2. Irish Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Urban Policy; Andrew Mac Laran and Sinéad Kelly 3. Light-Touch Regulation: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Banking Sector; Sinéad Kelly 4. The Political Economy of Legislative Change: Neoliberalising Planning Legislation; Enda Murphy, Linda Fox-Rogers and Berna Grist 5. The Changing Ideology and Operation of Planning in Dublin; Andrew Mac Laran and Niall Mc Crory PART II: THE PROPERTY BOOM AND ITS LEGACY Introduction; Andrew Mac Laran 6. Ready Money: Over-Development in the Offices Sector; Andrew Mac Laran 7. Ready Money: Residential Over-Development and its Consequences; Brendan Williams and Declan Redmond 8. The Financialisation of Irish Homeownership and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis; Dáithí Downey 9. Bailing out the Banks: the Role of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA); Brendan Williams PART III: RESHAPING URBAN POLICY AND RESHAPING THE CITY Introduction; Andrew Mac Laran 10. Actually-Existing Neoliberalism: Public-Private Partnerships in Public Service and Infrastructure Provision in Ireland; Rory Hearne 11. Taking Liberties: Gentrification as Neoliberal Urban Policy in Dublin; Sinéad Kelly 12. Neoliberalising the City ‘Creative-Class’ Style; Philip Lawton, Enda Murphy and Declan Redmond 13. Neoliberal ‘Regeneration’ and the Myth of Community Participation; Paula Brudell and Katia Attuyer 14. The Collapse of PPPs: Prospects for Social Housing Regeneration After the Crash; Rory Hearne and Declan Redmond 15. The Role of Private Consultancies in Neoliberal Urban Regeneration; Paula Brudell PART IV: CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Introduction; Andrew Mac Laran 16. Contested Urban Environments: Community Engagement and Struggle in Central Dublin; Michael Punch 17. Neoliberal Urban Policy and Challenging the Ideological Straightjacket; Andrew Mac Laran and Sinéad Kelly

About the author

Katia Attuyer, University of St. Andrews, UK Paula Brudell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dáithí Downey, Dublin Region Homeless Executive, Ireland Linda Fox-Rogers, University College Dublin, Ireland Berna Grist, University College Dublin, Ireland Rory Hearne, National University of Ireland Philip Lawton, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Niall Mc Crory, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Enda Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Michael Punch, University College Dublin, Ireland Declan Redmond, University College Dublin, Ireland Brendan Williams, University College Dublin, Ireland