Publications
Denkarbeid. Reflecteren en schrijven over de ambachten in België (negentiende en twintigste eeuw) KU Leuven
'So One Would Notice the Good Navigability': Economic Decline and the Cartographic Conception of Urban Space in Late Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bruges KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
© Cambridge University Press 2016. During most of the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the main commercial hub of north-western Europe. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, Bruges lostmuchof its allure as an economic metropolis. One of the most urgent challenges the urban authorities were facing was the navigability of the waterways in and around the city. While the city government made structural investments ...