Ballymun
Ballymun is a suburb on the north fringe of Dublin city centre. It used to be a rural community in the past, the remnants of which can still be seen dotted around the landscape today. In a period of relative economic prosperity, hundreds of families, mostly from the few surviving inner city tenements, were housed in new high-rise blocks. The architecture and housing solutions had been directly imported lock stock from the UK where similar experiments had been made.Ballymun suffered from the nelgect associated with mass high-rise estates and developments as time progressed. Housing was built but necessary facilities and support for council tenants did not materialise. As a result Ballymun became isolated from the city. The suburb is currently undergoing a massive regeneration, with most of the original eight storey blocks and towers being destroyed. There is a low-density, low-rise housing, which has been built and designed in consultation with the residents of the area over the past few years.
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