Promoting the single-family house in Belgium: the social construction of model housing ; La promotion de la maison indivuelle en Belgique et la définition d'un modèle social.

peer reviewed ; Urbanization in Belgium is a process of diffusion rather a process of urban concentration, though the country is very densely populated. In this process the state does not look to have a leading role. The paper examines how the housing policy determines this process of urbanization, namely by promoting the ownership and the individual house. The housing policy, initiated in years of deep social crisis, can only be understood as an upper-class response to the riots in 1886 : the housing policy is intended to give and enforce a social definition of working class, with various int... Mehr ...