Designing your dream city. I would like to design my city on the Atlantic coast of Ireland to become a major trading port across the Atlantic with the US and Canada. It is also my aim to develop it to become a flourishing centre of Irish industry.

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ESSAY 5. Designing your dream city

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Mu Jin Choi, 19/07/2009

If I were to be an architect and build a new ideal city, I would build it in hitherto undeveloped coastal regions. It is because building more cities in an area already overloaded with population would cause inflation and insufficiency of resources. Building a city by the coast can also help it to achieve rapid growth because of the coast's conveniences for trade and transport. Furthermore, the regions around the Northern Atlantic are currently the center of the economic and political world, which I would choose as a good background for my new city to prosper quickly. There rarely exist undeveloped areas in that coastline but for a few countries such as Ireland and Mauritania. First, let us talk about Mauritania. It is placed in West Africa, on the tip of the Sahara Desert. The dry climate there makes water scarce, cultivation difficult and the development of large cities almost impossible. All the major cities in the region are still placed on the Atlantic coast where it is comparatively easier to cultivate land and trade with other states. But the development of cities on the Atlantic coast of Ireland is in severe contrast to that in the western coastline of Mauritania. The biggest city and capital, Dublin, is placed near St. George's Channel and the second city, Cork, is placed deeply mainland. The development of cities in the western coast is primitive, with no major urban areas except for a few towns such as Galway or Limerick.

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 Ireland is also one of the rarely unindustrialized and poor countries in Western Europe, a region famous for the well-developped life standard and welfare of its people. Its industrial activities are entriely focused on agriculture, the conditions for development having been very bad through the last century following its independence from Great Britain, which stopped the little aid it had received frpm the British to build more factories in Ireland as they could not build any in already overindustrialized England. That is why I would like to build my city in the western coast of Ireland, specifically in the bay ...

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