Brusselization
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In urban planning, Brusselization or Brusselisation describes unregulated and often chaotic urban redevelopment with little regard for architectural and cultural heritage, resulting in a fragmented ci
Blaton Tower, a modern high-rise in Brussels, built on the site of Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple/Volkshuis
South Tower in Brussels, as seen from the Rue de Russie/Ruslandstraat, near Brussels-South railway station, in 1980
The Europa building, situated in the partially demolished and renovated Résidence Palace, is an example of contemporary Brusselization.
Covering of the Senne
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The covering of the Senne was the covering and later diverting of the main river of Brussels, Belgium, and the construction of public buildings and major boulevards in its place. Carried out between 1
Brusselization
…Two prior sweeping changes to the city's urban fabric were the straight-lined central boulevards modeled after Paris, which were created following the covering and diverting of the river Senne (1867–1871), as well as the North–South railway connection, which took around forty years to finish (1911–1952), and which had left swaths of the city…
Many unsanitary and unsafe wooden add-ons projected over the river in the lower town.
Jules Anspach and the Senne, editorial cartoon from L'Espiègle, 1868
The beginning of the vaulting and construction of the sewers in 1867
The Boulevard Anspach/Anspachlaan in 1880, etching by Armand Heins from L'Illustration nationale