Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-493) and index.
List of abbreviations and currency equivalences -- Planning the city: the beginnings -- Building the city: the corporations as developer -- Dublin corporation housing schemes to 1940 -- Not so private! public utility societies and semi-private developers -- Private developers -- Alexander Strain: profile of a builder -- Appendix I. The background to modern town planning and suburban development / Ruth McManus -- Appendix II. A brief guide to maps of Dublin in the first half of the twentieth century / Joseph Brady -- Appendix III. Some aspects of the geography of the city centre in the early twentieth century / Joseph Brady