Research-by-Design on the Hollow Roads of the Western Witness Hill of Leuven
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https://doi.org/10.47982/spool.2025.1.04Keywords:
Forest Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, Landscape UrbanismAbstract
If the ambition of the Flemish territory is to become more forested, then an approximation is needed between forest and urbanization processes. Forest expansion can only be realized by developing a new understanding between forest and urbanization. This article discusses urban design explorations that stimulate a spatial transformation grafted on the forest as a structuring element of the Western Witness Hills of Leuven, through the ‘forest figure’. The forest figure is explored as a concept able to incorporate and mould urban and forest ambitions into a workable spatial frame.
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