The Art of Urbanization: Urban Questions that Made the Antwerp Agglomeration, 1907-1939 - Couverture souple

Broes, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9462704821 ISBN 13 : 9789462704824

Editeur : Leuven University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Art of Urbanization reexamines a forgotten tradition in Belgian and European planning history, reconstructed through a longitudinal analysis of the Study Committee of the Antwerp Agglomeration. Unlike the dominant pursuit of rational planning models, Antwerp’s urban expansion was not the product of master planning, but evolved gradually through collective and pragmatic responses to emerging urban questions.

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources and richly illustrated, the book reconstructs how numerous sub-plans – each addressing economic, socio-cultural, political and ecological needs – gradually coalesced into the incremental components of a reasoned and dynamic urban agglomeration.

As it engages with classical concepts in urban theory and global urban history, The Art of Urbanization presents a generative, redistributive, reproductive, and situated worlding practice – offering a fresh perspective on urbanism that resonates in our current age of planetary urbanization.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Broes is a post-doctoral research fellow and teaching assistant at the department of architecture and urban planning at Ghent University.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The Art of Urbanization reexamines a forgotten tradition in Belgian and European planning history, reconstructed through a longitudinal analysis of the Study Committee of the Antwerp Agglomeration (1907-1939). Against prevailing trends, Antwerp’s urban expansion was not the product of rational master planning, but evolved gradually through collective and pragmatic responses to emerging urban questions.

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources and richly illustrated, the book reconstructs how numerous sub-plans – each addressing economic, sociocultural, political and ecological needs – coalesced into the incremental components of a reasoned and dynamic urban agglomeration.

As it engages with classical concepts in urban theory and global urban history, The Art of Urbanization is presented as a generative, redistributive, reproductive, and situated worlding practice – offering a fresh perspective on urbanism that resonates in our current age of (planetary) urbanization.

Tom Broes is a post-doctoral research fellow at the department of architecture and urban planning at Ghent University.

This work offers an important contribution to international urban planning and urban history, as the first study of early 20th century urbanization of a Belgian city of metropolitan scale. It adds a new perspective to the extant literature by writing the history of an urbanization project that is in many ways more coherent, livable and socially inclusive than many (sub)urban environments produced by late 20th century suburbanization. - Michael Ryckewaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leuven University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9462704821
• ISBN 13: 9789462704824
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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