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The urban fabric is generated by ad hoc infill along ribbons and the
unconsidered induction of freestanding, large-scale buildings often in a first
order/second order relation.
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Notes
1. For a more elaborated history of the Belgian urbanisation process see, for
example, Bruno De Meulder and Michiel Dehaene, Atlas Fascikel 1: Zuidelijk
West-Vlaanderen, Anno 02, Kortrijk, 2002.
2. Fernand Brunfaut, La condition municipale, Le Travail (Verviers), 1951.
3. For more detailed information see, for example, Bruno De Meulder et al,
Patching up the Belgian Landscape, Oase, 52, 1999, pp 78112.
4. Jean Remy, Ville: Ordre et violence, PUF (Paris), 1981, p 59.
5. Secondarity refers to the non-functional and irrational concretisation of a
desired spatial experience, a space that is created by processes of bricolage,
the subconscious and subversive trial-and-error production of new common
grounds.
6. Primarity characterises a condition where the production of space is
dictated by the necessities of subsistence and survival. It is a modus operandi
that assembles utilities to create efficient environments, mostly regulated by
an engineering rationality.
7. Bruno De Meulder, Lintbebouwing: Algemeen n Belgisch, SRO (86), 2005,
4, pp 403.
8. See, for example, the case study in Bruno De Meulder and Oswald Devisch,
Atlas Fascikel 3: Wevelgem, 2002.
9. The urbanistic work presented here forms part of the Atlas-project Southwest
Flanders that OSA undertakes, in collaboration with and commissioned by, the
Leiedal intermunicipal association in South Flanders. So far it includes a study of
the municipality of Wevelgem, the Buda Island project in the city of Kortrijk, the
secret gardens project on Buda Island, the redevelopment of the St Amandscollege in Kortrijk, the redevelopment of the power plant site in Zwevegem, a
landscape development strategy for the Bossuit-Kortrijk canal, a landscape
development strategy for the E17 highway in Southwest Flanders, and a study of
the Pand in Waregem. Results of this urbanistic work are published as fascicles
of the Atlas Southwest Flanders: fascicles 0, 1, 2 (on architecture); 3 Wevelgem;
4 Transformator, Project voor de Electriciteitscentrale, Zwevegem; 6 Kortrijk
Buda; 7 Gelijktijdige Landschappen, Canalscape, and so on.
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