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Urban [IM]plants Tactics for Recombining Landscape and Collective Space in Bonheiden, Belgium
Author(s) -
Verbakel Els,
Derman Elie
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.613
Subject(s) - beauty , public space , urban landscape , space (punctuation) , subject (documents) , geography , natural landscape , natural (archaeology) , architectural engineering , sociology , environmental planning , political science , law , archaeology , engineering , computer science , library science , operating system
Bonheiden, in the province of Antwerp in Belgium, lies in a region known for its exceptional natural beauty. Though the surrounding rural setting has remained protected this has often been to the detriment of urban life, as the built environment has been subject to a process of banal suburbanisation. Els Verbakel and Elie Derman explain how they propose to turn this situation around by creating public spaces that use the town's ‘original landscape as the base material’. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.