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Old Dispersions and Scenes for the Production of Public Space The Constructive Margins of Secondarity |
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| Authors: | Bruno de Meulder |
| Abstract: | The density of development in Belgium is such that the entire country has become an open city, with little sense of where one metropolitan area begins and another ends. Bruno De Meulder describes the underlying logic of this unbroken urbanscape, and the opportunity it affords for re-editing and reinserting informal social spaces in areas of wasted land. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | Belgium ‘dispersed unbanism’, sprawl, ‘citta diffusa’ unification and equalisation generalised condition of ‘secondarity’ ‘open city’ territory becomes isotropic zero degree of spatial quality OSA (the University of Leuven's Research Group for Urbanity and Architecture Southwest Flanders ‘secret gardens’, ‘platforms’, ‘quays’, ‘fields’ and ‘parks’ Buda secret garden Simultaneous landscapes/canalscape project |