A City and the State: Towards an Analysis of the National Plan for Waterford

Abstract

Project Ireland 2040, announced as ‘one vision for one country’, is the spatial plan for Ireland's development for the coming decades. The plan assigns a particular role to Ireland's cities outside Dublin, including Waterford. This chapter considers the place of Waterford in that national strategy and examines that role as an expression of a neoliberal ‘turn’ in Irish planning. Waterford is, in many senses, as will be shown, unexceptional in modern, Western cities; the chapter therefore in considering Waterford also will illuminate some aspects of the planning of other European cities.

Citation

Hayes, R. (2023), "A City and the State: Towards an Analysis of the National Plan for Waterford", Flynn, S. and Hayes, R. (Ed.) Urban Planning for the City of the Future, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 31-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-215-520231003