Greet De Block
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1469016 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Greet De Block |
| PRENOMES | Greet |
| SOBRENOME | De Block |
| ASSINATURA | DE BLOCK G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6587-3548 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Beyond ‘ Bad Density ’ and Territorial Stigma
Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density. However, as products of political campaigns aimed at constructing networked city regions, we argue that postwar suburbs should …
The garden territory
This article contributes to the genealogy of green infrastructure design by shifting the focus from science and technology to include broader societal, political and aesthetic issues, using a critical historical analysis of landscape design. We examine post-war Belgian green infrastructure projects by landscape architect René Pechère (1908-2002) to uncover the complex negotiations between politics, aesthetics and technology. The focus of this art…
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization
This article analyses processes of territorialization related to the planning of tram lines in early 20th-century Tianjin, one of China’s semi-colonial treaty ports and home to eight foreign extraterritorialities. We use the concept of technodiplomacy to foreground how infrastructure planning and the anticipated implications on territorialization operated as a portal through which actors of different states negotiated sovereignty within a constel…
The Material Politics of Infrastructure Networks Infrastructure Design and Territorial Transformation in Belgium, 1830–40s
This article delves into the processes of territorial transformation by foregrounding the material dimension of infrastructure. The entry of the research is infrastructure network design and planning. We will trace the concepts of territorial transformation inscribed into the material layout of large technical systems by analyzing the discourse of engineers and policy makers involved in the conception of infrastructure networks. In so doing, the …
Beyond Circular Thinking
Transit‐oriented development (TOD) plays a significant role within contemporary planning policies for ‘smart growth’ and sustainable development, particularly in Europe and North America. As a well‐rehearsed practice, this planning model is due for critical assessment and improvement in terms of its ability to incorporate dynamic and heterogeneous socio‐spatial processes as matters of concern. Analyses of the conditions for ‘making TOD work’ in t…
For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project
This special issue explores landscape design as a societal and political project. Its aim is to explore the question ‘For whom?’ in landscape architecture by extending the latter’s agency as a desi
Seawalls at Work
For more than a thousand years, the building of seawalls has been the dominant strategy to cope with flood risk in the coastal wetlands of the North Sea area. In debates on coastal adaptation, the seawall has become a symbol of "hard" infrastructure contrasting with "soft" engineering and "building-with-nature" technologies. Inspired by both environmental history and STS, this article challenges dominant narratives on the history of seawalls as i…
Nature’s order? Questioning causality in the modelling of transport networks
The effects of affect. A plea for distance between the human and non-human
Agreeing with Elizabeth Meyer to put aesthetics back on the landscape agenda, this article takes issue with the recent turn to the theoretical discourse of affect that advocates a continuity between object and subject, between the human and non-human. In this article we focus on the effects of the notion of affect in ecological landscape design and argue for an environmental aesthetics that sustains distance by discussing the concepts of ‘disinte…
Ecological infrastructure in a critical-historical perspective
The tandem of infrastructure and landscape ecology is increasingly presented as the design strategy par excellence to address the risk society. Staged in explicit contrast to engineering as discipline disrupting natural balance, discourses endorsed by landscape and ecological urbanism propagate a new and improved 'post-carbon' and 'post-Euclidian' infrastructure. The broad objective of the article is to examine the accuracy of this claim of movin…
Planning Rural-Urban Landscapes
In the international literature on today’s urban condition, Flanders is presented as prime example of urban sprawl, generally described as unplanned incremental development induced by the quantum leap of private car ownership. The research on rural-urban landscapes in south-west Flanders qualifies and substantiates this assertion by analysing pre-war keystone processes of infrastructure planning in relation to land-use patterns and landscape tran…
Light railways and the rural–urban continuum
Designing the Nation
In contrast to the strategy of most European countries, the first railways in Belgium were not introduced during an experimental phase with local lines, but conceived as a coherent infrastructural frame facilitating transnational transport, as well as unifying and injecting Belgian regions with industrialization. This was inspired by Saint-Simonian ideals. As the Belgian railway network was the translation of both national and international aspir…
Light railways and the rural–urban continuum
Ecological infrastructure in a critical-historical perspective
The tandem of infrastructure and landscape ecology is increasingly presented as the design strategy par excellence to address the risk society. Staged in explicit contrast to engineering as discipline disrupting natural balance, discourses endorsed by landscape and ecological urbanism propagate a new and improved 'post-carbon' and 'post-Euclidian' infrastructure. The broad objective of the article is to examine the accuracy of this claim of movin…
Designing the Nation
In contrast to the strategy of most European countries, the first railways in Belgium were not introduced during an experimental phase with local lines, but conceived as a coherent infrastructural frame facilitating transnational transport, as well as unifying and injecting Belgian regions with industrialization. This was inspired by Saint-Simonian ideals. As the Belgian railway network was the translation of both national and international aspir…
For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project
This special issue explores landscape design as a societal and political project. Its aim is to explore the question ‘For whom?’ in landscape architecture by extending the latter’s agency as a desi
Beyond Circular Thinking
Transit‐oriented development (TOD) plays a significant role within contemporary planning policies for ‘smart growth’ and sustainable development, particularly in Europe and North America. As a well‐rehearsed practice, this planning model is due for critical assessment and improvement in terms of its ability to incorporate dynamic and heterogeneous socio‐spatial processes as matters of concern. Analyses of the conditions for ‘making TOD work’ in t…
Planning Rural-Urban Landscapes
In the international literature on today’s urban condition, Flanders is presented as prime example of urban sprawl, generally described as unplanned incremental development induced by the quantum leap of private car ownership. The research on rural-urban landscapes in south-west Flanders qualifies and substantiates this assertion by analysing pre-war keystone processes of infrastructure planning in relation to land-use patterns and landscape tran…
Nature’s order? Questioning causality in the modelling of transport networks
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
The garden territory
This article contributes to the genealogy of green infrastructure design by shifting the focus from science and technology to include broader societal, political and aesthetic issues, using a critical historical analysis of landscape design. We examine post-war Belgian green infrastructure projects by landscape architect René Pechère (1908-2002) to uncover the complex negotiations between politics, aesthetics and technology. The focus of this art…
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization
This article analyses processes of territorialization related to the planning of tram lines in early 20th-century Tianjin, one of China’s semi-colonial treaty ports and home to eight foreign extraterritorialities. We use the concept of technodiplomacy to foreground how infrastructure planning and the anticipated implications on territorialization operated as a portal through which actors of different states negotiated sovereignty within a constel…
Seawalls at Work
For more than a thousand years, the building of seawalls has been the dominant strategy to cope with flood risk in the coastal wetlands of the North Sea area. In debates on coastal adaptation, the seawall has become a symbol of "hard" infrastructure contrasting with "soft" engineering and "building-with-nature" technologies. Inspired by both environmental history and STS, this article challenges dominant narratives on the history of seawalls as i…
The effects of affect. A plea for distance between the human and non-human
Agreeing with Elizabeth Meyer to put aesthetics back on the landscape agenda, this article takes issue with the recent turn to the theoretical discourse of affect that advocates a continuity between object and subject, between the human and non-human. In this article we focus on the effects of the notion of affect in ecological landscape design and argue for an environmental aesthetics that sustains distance by discussing the concepts of ‘disinte…
Light railways and the rural–urban continuum
Designing the Nation
In contrast to the strategy of most European countries, the first railways in Belgium were not introduced during an experimental phase with local lines, but conceived as a coherent infrastructural frame facilitating transnational transport, as well as unifying and injecting Belgian regions with industrialization. This was inspired by Saint-Simonian ideals. As the Belgian railway network was the translation of both national and international aspir…
Planning Rural-Urban Landscapes
In the international literature on today’s urban condition, Flanders is presented as prime example of urban sprawl, generally described as unplanned incremental development induced by the quantum leap of private car ownership. The research on rural-urban landscapes in south-west Flanders qualifies and substantiates this assertion by analysing pre-war keystone processes of infrastructure planning in relation to land-use patterns and landscape tran…
Ecological infrastructure in a critical-historical perspective
The tandem of infrastructure and landscape ecology is increasingly presented as the design strategy par excellence to address the risk society. Staged in explicit contrast to engineering as discipline disrupting natural balance, discourses endorsed by landscape and ecological urbanism propagate a new and improved 'post-carbon' and 'post-Euclidian' infrastructure. The broad objective of the article is to examine the accuracy of this claim of movin…
Nature’s order? Questioning causality in the modelling of transport networks
The effects of affect. A plea for distance between the human and non-human
Agreeing with Elizabeth Meyer to put aesthetics back on the landscape agenda, this article takes issue with the recent turn to the theoretical discourse of affect that advocates a continuity between object and subject, between the human and non-human. In this article we focus on the effects of the notion of affect in ecological landscape design and argue for an environmental aesthetics that sustains distance by discussing the concepts of ‘disinte…
Beyond Circular Thinking
Transit‐oriented development (TOD) plays a significant role within contemporary planning policies for ‘smart growth’ and sustainable development, particularly in Europe and North America. As a well‐rehearsed practice, this planning model is due for critical assessment and improvement in terms of its ability to incorporate dynamic and heterogeneous socio‐spatial processes as matters of concern. Analyses of the conditions for ‘making TOD work’ in t…
For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project
This special issue explores landscape design as a societal and political project. Its aim is to explore the question ‘For whom?’ in landscape architecture by extending the latter’s agency as a desi
Seawalls at Work
For more than a thousand years, the building of seawalls has been the dominant strategy to cope with flood risk in the coastal wetlands of the North Sea area. In debates on coastal adaptation, the seawall has become a symbol of "hard" infrastructure contrasting with "soft" engineering and "building-with-nature" technologies. Inspired by both environmental history and STS, this article challenges dominant narratives on the history of seawalls as i…
The Material Politics of Infrastructure Networks Infrastructure Design and Territorial Transformation in Belgium, 1830–40s
This article delves into the processes of territorial transformation by foregrounding the material dimension of infrastructure. The entry of the research is infrastructure network design and planning. We will trace the concepts of territorial transformation inscribed into the material layout of large technical systems by analyzing the discourse of engineers and policy makers involved in the conception of infrastructure networks. In so doing, the …
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization
This article analyses processes of territorialization related to the planning of tram lines in early 20th-century Tianjin, one of China’s semi-colonial treaty ports and home to eight foreign extraterritorialities. We use the concept of technodiplomacy to foreground how infrastructure planning and the anticipated implications on territorialization operated as a portal through which actors of different states negotiated sovereignty within a constel…
The garden territory
This article contributes to the genealogy of green infrastructure design by shifting the focus from science and technology to include broader societal, political and aesthetic issues, using a critical historical analysis of landscape design. We examine post-war Belgian green infrastructure projects by landscape architect René Pechère (1908-2002) to uncover the complex negotiations between politics, aesthetics and technology. The focus of this art…
Beyond ‘ Bad Density ’ and Territorial Stigma
Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density. However, as products of political campaigns aimed at constructing networked city regions, we argue that postwar suburbs should …
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