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The Politicization of Suburbanization in Belgium: Towards an Urban-Suburban Divide KU Leuven
The electoral and political consequences of suburbanisation recently regained interest in the Anglo-Saxon literature, pointing to a growing polarisation between city and suburban fringe. This paper analyses these processes in the Antwerp urban region and shows the development of a similar electoral divide that is supported by the political parties involved. These observations add to the existing evidence that city–suburban polarisation in ...
The surbanisation of superdiversity in Flanders Universiteit Antwerpen
The transformation of commuting patterns in the functional urban region of Budapest Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The relocation of jobs to suburban areas have changed commuting patterns thereby increasing the significance of reverse commuting from the central city to the suburbs and cross-commuting within suburban areas. While research on these processes has been widespread in the USA and Western Europe, we know relatively little about how commuting patterns changed in the metropolitan regions of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) where suburbanisation was ...
Fimic place and space in parisian suburbs: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
La Haine by Matthieu Kassovitz, shot in 1994, gave rise to the genre "film on the suburbs". Hadewych by Bruno Dumont focussed on the same topic some fifteen years later, in 2010. In the light of Thomas Guenolé's "Les jeunes de banlieue mangent-ils des enfants?", I show how the mythical and typical side of terror is realised more when terror is unreal and remote. Of course this hypothesis, which proves true for the feature films presented here, ...
Suburban renewal: perspectives from Belgian, Danish and French cases Universiteit Hasselt
This paper examines the change in the perception of the suburban from an inherently non-sustainable territory to one with environmental, social and architectural potential through a comparative analysis of the suburban in three European countries: Belgium, France and Denmark. The approach identifies urban, architectural, social and environmental constants and variables in each country in order to better illustrate the reasons for and nature of ...
Suburban place-making Universiteit Antwerpen
In urban studies, a specific process of urbanisation, namely suburbanisation, has remained understudied for a long time. This doctoral dissertation wants to contribute to the growing literature on suburbanisation in addressing three new research agendas that have been called upon by several authors in the past years: a global perspective, a longitudinal approach and an inside perspective. First, in recent years, the Global Suburbanisms research ...
Spatial transformations in urban areas during the past 50 years Universiteit Gent
This research examines the dynamics of spatial transformations in highly urbanized areas and in particular the urban agglomeration of Ghent (Belgium). To this end we go back 50 years in time (1963-2013). The hypothesis is assumed that three major spatial transformations take place during this period: (1) the population increase leads to sub-urbanization or the spreading of functions around the city center until the 1980s and (2) is followed by a ...