Herbert Simms : An Architect for the People

Herbert Simms : An Architect for the People

Lindie Naughton

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FörlagNew Island
ISBN9781848409125

Dublin's teeming slums, long regarded as the worst in Europe, were teetering on the brink of structural and sanitary public catastrophe during the early twentieth century. To tackle the crisis, Herbert Simms was appointed the city's first housing architect. During a sixteen-year period, from 1932 un