{"product_id":"art-of-urbanization","title":"Art of Urbanization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForgotten chapter in early 20th-century European planning history, offering a fresh perspective on urbanism, grounded in a theory of urbanization\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Urbanization\u003c\/em\u003e reexamines a forgotten tradition in Belgian and European planning history, reconstructed through a longitudinal analysis of the Study Committee of the Antwerp Agglomeration (1907-1939). Against prevailing trends, Antwerp’s urban expansion was not the product of rational master planning, but evolved gradually through collective and pragmatic responses to emerging urban questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide range of historical sources and richly illustrated, the book reconstructs how numerous sub-plans – each addressing economic, sociocultural, political and ecological needs – coalesced into the incremental components of a reasoned and dynamic urban agglomeration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs it engages with classical concepts in urban theory and global urban history, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Urbanization\u003c\/em\u003e is presented as a generative, redistributive, reproductive, and situated worlding practice – offering a fresh perspective on urbanism that resonates in our current age of (planetary) urbanization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55280110731608,"sku":"9789462704893","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9789462704893.jpg?v=1777961715","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/art-of-urbanization","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}