From Flux to Frame. The Infrastructure Project as a Vehicle of Territorial Imagination and an Instrument of Urbanization in Belgium Since the Early 19th Century KU Leuven
The PhD research investigates the ways in which infrastructure projects represent the underlying structure, or framework, of the Belgian urbanization process. The analysis demonstrates that the design process behind the infrastructure projects was, on the one hand, the outcome of a complex interplay of technical parameters, transport-economic logics, military strategies, or the characteristics of landscape. However, on the other hand, the ...