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Forgotten chapter in early 20th-century European planning history, offering a fresh perspective on urbanism, grounded in a theory of urbanization 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.
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Keywords
- (Global) Urban History
- Belgian Agglomerations
- design philosophy
- planning history
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMG Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
- Urban Theory
- Urbanism & Urbanization
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DOI: 10.11116/9789461666796Editions