How do we build a climate resilient city?
<p>Cranes and more cranes. It would be good to think they are all building homes given that the city is in a long-term housing crisis, but a lot of them are completing new office complexes, although the city has lots of new, empty, glass tower blocks.</p>
<p>Just take a look at Smithfield where the rectangle has been completed with odd-looking glass towers — many sitting empty since completion and where the most common price on office rental in the area is “negotiable”. <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2023/09/23/dublins-vacant-buildings-more-than-12000-properties-empty-across-irelands-capital/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Over a quarter of all vacant buildings in Ireland </a>are in the capital with some 12,000 empty homes and commercial properties.</p>
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