The Art of Urbanization

Urban Questions that Made the Antwerp Agglomeration, 1907-1939

von Tom Broes

378 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Forgotten chapter in early 20th-century European planning history, offering a fresh perspective on urbanism, grounded in a theory of urbanizationThe 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.

• Reihe: Leuven University Press
• ISBN: 9789462704893
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2025
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Leuven University Press