The Garden-Cities in Belgium ; Les Cités-Jardins en Belgique

The question of the reconstruction in Belgium after the First World War wil be done under the influence of Unwin and Berlage, from a planned urbanism in which, the model of Garden-City of renting houses, supported by the powerful Societé Nationale des HBM created in 1919, will rise the entire protagonism in the struggle against the problem of housing. All a new generation of young architects (Bourgeois, Van der Swaelmen .) linked to the Societé Nationale will get excites about that model in which they wiil see a symbol of progress and a new possible path to La Ville Moderne. They will discard... Mehr ...