Urban Regimes and Strategies: Building Europe's Central Executive District in BrusselsUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. nov. 1996 - 290 sider If a city based its planning decisions on the needs of an international bureaucracy rather than on the traditional needs of local residents and businesses, how would that city change? How might it look? In Brussels, Belgium—since 1957 home to the European Union—such change is taking place. Observing the change, Alexis G. Papadopoulos explores a new geographical concept, the Central Executive District. This urban form is significantly different from the Central Business District, its conventional counterpart. Drawing on game and rational choice theories, spatial analysis, and land economics, the author analyzes how the landscape of the city's center has evolved over the last three decades under the influence of successive coalitions of local and foreign elites. He describes how foreign diplomats, international corporate executives, and real-estate developers cooperate with one another to carry out major urban projects in the face of resistance from local neighborhood groups, conservationists, and political factions. This study makes a substantial contribution to geography and urban studies both for its implications about the future of world cities like New York, London, and Paris and for its original application of the notion of cooperative regimes. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Belgium following federalization | 5 |
The BrusselsCapital Region and surrounding | 11 |
The Historical Background | 41 |
Manuscript map of Brussels by Jacob van Deventer | 49 |
Map by Nicolas De Fer of the bombardment of Brussels 1695 | 56 |
The Planning Aspect | 75 |
Early maps of the quartier Léopold | 77 |
The Quartier as Land Market | 93 |
Rental prices of prime office space worldwide | 104 |
Growth of rental properties at the quartier Européen | 106 |
Brussels office submarkets 11011 | 110 |
Evolution of prices of auctioned properties in the quartier | 113 |
Distribution of land value in the quartier EuropéenLéopold | 123 |
Survey of Brusselsbased realestate development firms | 144 |
National Ethnic or City Interests First? | 153 |
Old and new buildings and land uses on the southern | 85 |
Plan of an alternative EC administrative park at | 91 |
In Search of Monumentality in Consumption | 207 |
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activities administrative administrative/office aesthetic amenities ARAU architectural avenue Louise Belgian Belgium Berlaymont boulevard Brussels metropolitan area Brussels Region Brussels-Capital Region Brussels's Bruxelles building types capital central business district Centre International century construction cooperation corporate cultural economic Elster Europe European Communities European integration European Parliament European Union executive federal firms Flemish functional Geography Grand Place groups growth housing Ibid important institutions International du Congrés Jacques de Lalaing Joseph II land market landscape Léopold and Nord-Est London morphological neighborhoods neoclassical nineteenth-century office space Paris Pascale Rowhouse Residential Pentagon city percent players political private sector properties quartier Européen-Léopold quartier Léopold quartier Nord quartier Nord-Est real-estate development regimes Regional government residents Rowhouse Com./Res Rowhouse Residential royal rue du Marteau Schuman significant social square Frère Orban street blocks structure tion townhouses transformation urban development urban morphology urban planning Wallonia zones
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