Tag: rural urbanism
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toolbox dorpse architectuur
// From the Campine region to the coast, villages in Flanders are rapidly transforming. A wave of apartment buildings is rolling across the country, representing an ever increasing proportion of the housing stock even in small village centers. The residential quality in and around such buildings projects is disappearing. Individual architectural projects however can make…
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A Practice of Village Urbanism
Ward Verbakel, doctoral research // The villages as part of the urbanized landscape and dispersed phantom metropole of Flanders are undergoing rapid transformations. In a context where regulation and spatial policy is loose and often focused on damage control, a second wave of densification is ongoing. Since the beginning of the millennium building permits for…