The Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor: Ireland’s Mega-City Region?

John Yarwood is an International Planning Consultant. He is a Former Director of Urban Institute Ireland at University College Dublin.

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Overview and summary, John Yarwood; City-regions in the global knowledge economy, Martin Sokol; Implementing the national spatial strategy and the regional development strategy for Northern Ireland within the Dublin-Belfast corridor, Niall Cussen and Jim Hetherington; Critical reflections on the national spatial strategy and the regional development strategy for Northern Ireland, Jim Walsh and Michael Murray; The structure of the Greater Dublin area, John Yarwood; Appendix to Chapter 5, Gearoid O'Riain and Nick Green; Remarks on the regional planning guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area, John Yarwood; Review of local planning within the Dublin-Belfast corridor, Malachy McEldowney and Derry O'Connell; Mass transportation within development corridors, John Prosser and John Yarwood; Service firm connections in the Dublin-Belfast corridor, Chris van Egeraat and Martin Sokol; Housing growth, land delivery and sustainable urban management, Mark Scott, Niamh Moore, Declan Redmond and Menelaos Gkartzios; Urban design principles and local environments in the Dublin-Belfast corridor, Philip Geoghegan; Housing markets and cross-border integration, Chris Paris; Sub-regional planning in cross-border city-regions: the case of North-West Ireland, Brendan Murtagh and Brian Kelly; Local authorities and the management of cross-border projects, Derek Birrell; Towards an hypothetical regional plan for the Dublin-Belfast corridor, John Yarwood; Index.