Dynamiques spatiales de l'industrialisation et devenir de la Belgique

Vandermotten, Christian

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“…The Belgian economic-geographic historiography commonly utilizes a Kondratieff cycle periodization to chart the country's spatial-economic transitions over time (Vandermotten, 1998). Phelps and Ozawa (2003) augment this perspective through providing an explicit historic-geographical theorization of agglomeration economies.…”

Section: A Concise History Of the Belgian Urban Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The surroundings of these cities-roughly equivalent with present-day West-Vlaanderen, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaams-Brabant, Brabant wallon and the western part of Antwerpen provinces-develop a densely populated market based settlement system congruent with central place logic (Vandermotten and Vandewattyne, 1985;Van Nuffel and Saey, 2005). In the fourteenth century, the Ghent textile industry diffuses in the neighboring countryside (Abu-Lughod, 1989: 85), giving an impulse to a long-lasting rural proto-industrial putting out system of small family-based cottage industries (Musyck, 1995;Vandermotten 1998). While the position of Bruges is eventually overtaken by Antwerp in the fifteenth century, before moving on to Amsterdam after 1585 (Braudel, 1984), Brussels gradually becomes an important administrative center under the various political regimes that rule present-day Belgium.…”

Section: A Concise History Of the Belgian Urban Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Soon after independence, Belgium becomes the first continental European country to industrialize. Given the paramount importance of transport costs in this era, industrialization and related urbanization take place there where natural resources are found (Hohenberg andLees, 1995 [1985]; Vandermotten, 1998;Phelps and Ozawa, 2003: 591). Consequently, the coal-deposit areas of the previously thinly populated south in the Meuse-Sambre river basins develop vigorously.…”

Section: The Walloon Axis: Belgian Urban System Development In the Second Kondratieff Wave (1840-1895)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Flemish Diamond or ABC-Axis? The spatial structure of the Belgian metropolitan area

Meeteren

Boussauw

Derudder

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European Planning Studies

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This contribution traces the evolution of the Belgian urban system by adopting an historical taxonomy of agglomeration-economy regimes, and poses the question whether a new centralizing agglomeration-economy regime based on renewed 'metropolization' can be observed. Belgium has federalized into three regions during the last decades, and different spatial perspectives emerged about how the central metropolitan area crosscuts the regional borders. After placing Belgian metropolization in its historical context, we engage with its contemporary geography. We inquire if the metropolitan core of Belgium is more akin to the 'Flemish Diamond', with capital city Brussels as the southernmost node, or whether a spatial pattern reminiscent of the historical 'Antwerp-Brussels-Charleroi (ABC)-Axis' is a more adequate description. To answer these questions, we examine the spatial integration of the Belgian labor market utilizing Vasanen's (2012) connectivity field method and a 2010 nation-wide travel-to-work dataset. The results indicate that contemporary metropolization in Belgium can be topographically expressed as an area that is more trans-regional than the Flemish Diamond yet more polycentric than an extension of Brussels, thus pointing to renewed economic centralization tendencies at the supra-regional level.1 Although part of a broader theoretical claim that remains unexamined in this chapter, Scott's (2012) claims about the emergence of a new 'cognitive-cultural economy' discusses the same agglomerative mechanisms as Krätke's (2007) 'metropolization'. 2 The term 'nebular city' ('nevelstad' in Dutch) was adopted from the Italian concept of città

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Section: A Concise History Of the Belgian Urban Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Concise History Of the Belgian Urban Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Walloon Axis: Belgian Urban System Development In the Second Kondratieff Wave (1840-1895)mentioning

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Flemish Diamond or ABC-Axis? The spatial structure of the Belgian metropolitan area

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Derudder

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European Planning Studies

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“…Unlike the Walloon coal basin in southern Belgium (Vandermotten, 1998), Ghent's Industrial Revolution was not based on coal, steel and glass, it was textile production that put the city again on the map (Neven and Devos, 2001). Flax processing in the Leie valley had not stalled during the eighteenth century, wherefore a lot of expertise in textile processing was still concentrated in Ghent, which was easily accessible via the dense waterway system.…”

Section: Industrial Developmentmentioning

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“…It is striking that when steel production began in Ghent, the historical coal and iron centre of the Walloon basin started declining (Vandermotten, 1998). The main reason was that it had become cheaper to obtain foreign coke through the port instead of mining Belgian coal, while iron ore was at the time already massively imported.…”

Section: The New Industrial Wave Of the Golden Sixtiesmentioning

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City profile: Ghent, Belgium

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2014

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The various phases of Ghent's urban development read like a textbook on urban history.Emerging as a political and religious centre at the confluence of two rivers, Ghent developed from the end of the eighteenth century on into an important centre of the textile industry. Its independent attitude ensured that the city developed well into the nineteenth century within the straitjacket of the military ramparts, where both trade, industry and academe found fertile soil. After the city toll was lifted, the city boomed, while the seaport went through a new wave of industrialisation in the mid-twentieth century. First the CIAM doctrine and later on the postmodernist approach has clearly left its traces on the urban fabric. Today, urban policy is received critically by civil society organisations, while on-going debates focus on the balance between tourism and habitation, on the architecture of the central squares, on bicycle facilities and tram lines, on the poor housing conditions in the nineteenth-century neighbourhoods, on the lack of greenery in the city and on the development of peripheral retail outlets. Word count 6350 words

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Dynamiques spatiales de l'industrialisation et devenir de la Belgique

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Flemish Diamond or ABC-Axis? The spatial structure of the Belgian metropolitan area

Flemish Diamond or ABC-Axis? The spatial structure of the Belgian metropolitan area

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