Woonbossen in de Antwerpse agglomeratie. Een geschiedenis en retroactieve definitie van bosstedenbouw

摘要

The inhabited forests of Antwerp.A history and retroactive definition of forest urbanismForest, although repressed in the current urbanism regime, has played a crucial role in the structuring of urbanization in the north-east of the Antwerp agglomeration. The consistent coherence between and intertwinement of forestry and urbanism over several development phases in time seduce us to a retroactive definition of forest urbanism. Three aspects mark the bonds: the forest and urban structure reinvent one another in dynamic cycles; the forest allows for a multiplicity of urban uses in an alternative, natural setting; forests play a fundamental societal role, they represent our most fundamental, natural existence on earth. In Schotenhof, the central case-study in this paper, these base characteristics shape over the course of time in an iteration a unique urbanization process.