German architect’s description of city as looking like ‘mouth full of broken teeth’ sparks debate about planning
When the professor was interviewed on RTÉ’s Drive Time, presenters Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra, proud Galwegians both, all but warned their guest that they’d be wearing the maroon jerseys for this one.It turned into a lively conversation during which the German reiterated his amazement at the thoughtless, haphazard development which distinguished the choked arteries to the medieval city which enchanted him on a previous visit decade before.
This is undeniable. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Galway will have experienced the infuriating and unpredictable bouts of traffic gridlock and wondered at the apparent obsession with roundabouts. “But it doesn’t support public transport, so you get a car-based city. We wrote the code for urban sprawl. And what we now have around every one of our cities is very elegant urban cores followed by this sprawl. Galway goes straight from medieval to urban sprawl. Essentially, our planning regulations are the reason for that.”
The planning system is not fit for purpose at the moment. We need more integration and sharing with the public.“But if you met Prof Wulf, you would know he is saying: you have a great city, but you haven’t thought about how you plan it out in an integrated way. And he was giving an analogy. It is like that painful trip to the dentist. And this came across again and again at the conference: the mindset needs to change. It’s about the kind of communities we want to live in.
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