Dendermonde, a city on two rivers: reflections about the projects d’amenagement after the First World War

peer reviewed ; The First World War as well as being cause to destruction, was also an occasion of renewal for many residential areas, which exploited the post-war reconstruction to change their urban layout. It was the time when in Europe new approaches to architecture and urban planning were being discussed, based on the aesthetics. Meanwhile, in the Belgian context, the debate on the Art de Bâtir by C. Sitte began to consolidate, and, simultaneously, the first institutions of sites protection were born. Termonde, a settlement dating from the eleventh century, occupies a geographically strat... Mehr ...