Bruxellisation

Bruxellisation (in Dutch: verbrusseling ) is a term used by the Urbanistes to indicate the anarchistic development of an old city delivered to the Promoteur S. This phenomenon owes its name at the town of Brussels where it was particularly sensitive in the Années 1960 and 1970, whereas the city was delivered to the dreams of city of the future of uncontrolled promoters.

Origin

One can without much difficulty of dating the birth from the phenomenon with Brussels of the World Fair of 1958. In order to prepare the city, of the boulevards were bored, the tunnels dug, in short, Brussels entered on one level the age of the car.

In the following years, a gigantic project was set up to transform the whole of the Northern district, popular quarters of Brussels close to the station of North, in a kind of city of the future.

In front of the resistance of the local population, whole small islands of residential buildings were acquired and left with the abandonment until the last inhabitants flee and which the permit building is granted of tired war.

The method of rotting was then generalized with the town suit, where surfaces of offices tripled in 20 years.

Analyzes

Other cities had been the prey of the speculators in the past. Paris of Haussmann, for example, allowed juicy investments at the expense of the small people, driven back towards the Zone . But Paris d' Haussmann is appeared of an esthetic alibi and the new avenues did not miss pace.

Nothing like it in Brussels, where the Voûtement of the Seine at the 19th century and the '' junction '' of the stations of North and the South in the Années 1930 had already left terrible scars in urban fabric. To some extent, the fact that the center of Brussels was already mutilated and was not really raised made the things easier to the promoters.

See too

Related articles

  • Façadisme

External bonds

  • the bruxellisation
  • the bruxellisation on the site of [[the Workshop of urban research and action|ARAU]]

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