The arena of urban planning in Brussels Capital Region1 today gathers political and
economical powers together with organisations and institutions for different sectorial …

The paper describes the different capital city functions that are accomodated in Brussels.
There are in fact five different capitals in Brussels in search of a place. Their locations are …

The master plan was designed in the framework of the 2002 Regional Development Plan
(RDP) as the preferred tool for the development of the fourteen “areas of regional interest” …

During the last decade, new procedural devices have been developed to stimulate the
renewal of large brownfields that Brussels includes in its very heart. Since last year, a new …

In the aftermath of the dynamic events that Brussels endured in 2000, being one of the
cultural capitals of Europe, the lack of a vision on an urban project for and by Brussels was …

This paper presents an analysis of some of the socio‐political stakes riding on the recent
implementation of a 'structure plan'(or schéma directeur) for the 'Botanique'area in Brussels …

The paper unfolds the different actors and their converging visions: the “commercial
peripheral urbanism” of the mass distribution companies, the idea of “sub-(peripheral) …

This text is a short account or summary of urban imaginations which have conditioned the
formal view of the development of public space since the creation of the Brussels-Capital …

dc. description. abstract" The former railway site of Josaphat, in Brussels, is mainly lying
bare. The Brussels Capital Region, the owner of the terrain, is finalising its development …

This paper analyses the changes resulting from the use of a new tool in urban policies in
Brussels, the schéma directeur (structure plan). We especially examine whether the new …