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Michael McDermott STREET LIFE MALIN AND MIZEN The
re’s always a product or idea which is simple in concept yet clever in execution to make you click the ‘add to cart’ button. And Bill Abbot’s Sea Swim map ticks the boxes. With over 3200km of rugged coastline, he’s selected over 160 of the best spots to jump in replete with info such as dangers, access, lifeguard presence and Blue Flag status. It comes in medium and large formats with print and framing options. From €39, malinandmizen.com Whether it’s the pedestrianisation of Capel Street, the foundering plans to make College Green work or the great work by our contributor Michael Lanigan’s for Dublin Inquirer about a developer seeking to demolish two Dutch Billy houses on Francis Street; the streets of our city continue to provide and confound in equal measure. Streets for All: 50 Ideas for Shaping Resilient Cities may have a consideration or solution for us all. Exploring the street as a receptacle for public life, a socio-economic catalyst, landscape and ecology and innovative infrastructure; it invites a collection of insights around the globe as it seeks to interrogate the notion of “who our streets are for, who in turn shapes them, by what means, and to what ends.” Streets For All – 50 Ideas for Shaping Resilient Cities by Shyam Khandekar and Vinayak Bharne is published by My Liveable City, €39