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Map showing M3 motorway's route in relation to Tar (redrawn from NRA's website: http://www.m3motorway.ie/Detail
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Nationalism, Sacred landscape, Tara This article explores the intersubjectivities of person and place, present and past, imagination and memory, heritage and identity, in the context of a decade-long dispute over the Irish government's decision to build a motorway through the iconic landscape of Tara in County Meath. Tara has performed as a mnemoni...
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... Despite this considerable body of knowledge, there is little empirical evidence examining the impact of specific urbanisation processes or projects on the relationships Indians have with the river as part of their traditions, everyday practices and heritage (after Rountree, 2012). The research reviewed here suggests that urbanisation poses a threat to cultural heritage (al-Houdalieh and Sauders, 2009;after Arabindoo, 2011) and people's sense of identity (Radoine, 2013). ...
With rapid urbanisation has come changes to Ahmedabad’s spatial form, including the decision to transform eleven kilometres of the city’s monsoon river into a Riverfront. The Sabarmati Riverfront project is extensive in scale and ambition, and emerged with strong political support for the ‘environmental improvement … and urban rejuvenation project’. However, exactly how the project has improved and rejuvenated the river is unclear. Mindful of how rivers in India constitute important cultural heritage, in this article we aim to examine how the policy rhetoric behind the Sabarmati Riverfront project was implemented in practice and experienced in real life.
