The Art of Urbanization : Urban Questions that Made the Antwerp Agglomeration, 1907–1939
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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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