Entrée principale:

Acker, Maarten van, author.

Titre et auteur:

From flux to frame : designing infrastructure and shaping urbanization in Belgium / Maarten Van Acker.

Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2014.
©2014

Description:

464 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-462).
PART 1: COLONIZING THE CAMPINE -- 1. An emerging national test site -- 2. 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 dunes -- 4. Rational coastal urbanization schemes meshed with modern roads -- 5. The coastal landscape framed by multi modal synergies -- PART 3: RE-TRACING THE ANTWERP RINGSCAPE -- 1. The first exercise in encirclement and reinterpretation -- 2. The urban boulevard as a test case for a changing discipline -- 3. Designing an urban highway -- 4. Continuous non-conformity: new futures for the Ringscape -- 5. Urban infrastructures shaping the Antwerp Ringscape.

Résumé:

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9789058679581 (paperback)
9058679586 (paperback)

Sujet:

Urban transportation Belgium Planning.
Transports urbains Belgique Planification.
Urban transportation Planning.
Urbanization Belgium.
Belgium.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 288710
Cote: BIB 230590
Statut: Disponible