bike rental scheme, bikemi, cycling, Dublin, Environment, ff ard fheis, Green Party, Irish Times, italia, italy, jcdecaux, milan, milano, piazza del duomo, public transport, Urban environment
In Dublin, Environment, Europe, Fianna Fáil, Green Party, Urban environment on February 28, 2009 at 9:57 pm
BikeMi rank at Piazza del Duomo, Milan
Brian Cowen entered the conference hall of the FF Ard Fheis this evening to Arcade Fire’s ‘No Cars Go’. While our Taoiseach may not have seen the environmental message I have decided is contained therein it feels apt that a week ahead of the Green Party’s conference in Wexford (Eoin and Lenny will be down there for YellowRomanCandles) we check out how the Italians have established a bike rental scheme to complement its public transport system.
Before I try to explain how the scheme works I should probably explain how far the Italians, and the Milanese in particular, are ahead of us in the public transport stakes. Read the rest of this entry »
Art, Berlin, Culture, film, gallery, Music, Paris, squat
In Culture, Dublin, Entertainment, Music on February 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm
In my very first post on this blog – a ramble on how urban planning could be made a lot more interesting – I said that my next post would look at how we can encourage the development of interesting cultural venues in our towns and cities. So apologies that I’m only getting ’round to it now.
By ‘interesting’ cultural venues, I essentially mean ‘grassroots’ venues – spaces run by artists devoted to the public display of music, fine art, theatre, photography or whatever-you’re-having. These spaces are probably small and run on a non-commercial basis. Some might be considered ‘underground’ venues, and they often rely more on word-of-mouth for promotion than direct advertising. However they operate, they certainly making urban spaces a heck of a lot more interesting. Dublin has a few that sort of bit the bill: Red Space, The Joinery, Hideaway House, ThisIsNotAShop, The Shed.
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anti-terror, Blackrock, culture jam, Dublin, street art
In Culture, Dublin, Urban environment on January 30, 2009 at 11:49 am
Catching the Doirt from Blackrock last week, I noticed that CIE appear to have a very clever strategy to prevent terrorist attacks at the station. Look at the text at the very bottom of the sign:
However, after some intrepid investigation (I Googled ‘No bomb please’), it quickly became clear that, unfortunately, this wasn’t the work of everyone’s favourite semi-state. See other examples here and here. So I guess that it’s, like, street art, or maybe a culture-jam-of-sorts.
And that fairly tenuous reference gives me an excuse to post pics of some of my favourite street culture jams:
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Barack Obama, dail eireann, Declan Ganley, dublin west, election 2007, gaza, Irish Socialist Party, joe higgins, Libertas, Lisbon Treaty, mep elections, middle east, Progressive Democrats, socialist workers party
In Dublin, Economy, Education, Election, Europe, Irish Socialist Party, Labour Party on January 29, 2009 at 1:20 am
Yellow Roman Candles contributor JP O’Malley recently met with former Dublin West TD Joe Higgins to discuss Irish politics post-Lisbon and, hopefully, pre-the entry of Higgins onto the European political stage.
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cultural quarter, Culture, Dublin, Temple Bar
In Culture, Dublin, Music, Urban environment on November 28, 2008 at 11:22 am
Temple Bar gets a hard time – from Lonely Planet, from Frank McDonald, probably from a lot of people living in Dublin. But for all its obvious problems, which I won’t bother with here, it’s got a lot going for it too. So here’s the obligatory top ten list – I have no idea if I can fill it.
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