Designing Infrastructure and Shaping Urbanization in Belgium
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1125 g
ISBN: 978-90-5867-958-1
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Daily traffic jams, discussions whenever a new infrastructure project is launched, the health debate about car emissions … The tense relationship between infrastructure and its surroundings becomes clearer to us every day. Infrastructure and urbanism seem to belong to two different worlds. Whilst infrastructure design belongs to the domain of the engineer, urbanism is often part of the overlapping disciplines of architecture, social science, and policy studies.
From Flux to Frame is in the forefront of publications that set out to bridge the gap between those disciplines, and sheds a new light on two centuries of urban planning and transport history. The author investigates the spatial impact of highways, motorways, canals, tramways, and railways on the surrounding landscape by applying a new methodology that combines classical historical literature with innovative mapping techniques. The book features an abundance of previously unpublished historical illustrations of exceptional quality, making this an attractive book for various levels of readership.
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IntroductionPART 1 Colonizing the Campine1 An emerging national test site2 Colonizing and canalizing the Campine [1838-1914]3 The Iron Rhine and the re-quickening of the Campine Canal [1879-1914]4 Endogenous trajectories towards a national industry [1894-1914]5 Carbon colonization [1901-1939] 6 Infrastructure hijacking urbanization [1945-1970]7 The multiple lives of the Campine infrastructure
PART 2 Developing (along) the Coastline(s) 1 Land in-sight: modeling the horizon of a new nation [circa 1830] 2 Tracking tourism [1830-1885] 3 Wiring the dunes4 Rational coastal urbanization schemes meshed with modern roads 5 The coastal landscape framed by multimodal synergies
PART 3 Re-tracing the Antwerp Ringscape1 The first exercise in encirclement and reinterpretation2 The urban boulevard as a test case for a changing discipline3 Designing an urban highway4 Continuous non-conformity: new futures for the Ringscape 5 Urban infrastructures shaping the Antwerp Ringscape
The parallel histories and interwoven futures of infrastructure design and urbanism AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsSourcesBibliographyImage Sources
