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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Favero, Giovanni
• Serruys, Michael-W
• Sugiura, Miki

Titel

Urban Networks on the Move: The Austrian Netherlands’ Transit Policy and the Development of the Belgian Urban Networks in the Eighteenth Century (1704–1793)

Ist Teil von

• The Urban Logistic Network, 2019, p.75-100

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this chapter Serruys shows that transport systems are a structuring element of urban networks. As they are constantly evolving, the spatial make-up of urban networks is highly dynamic. This means that the spatial relations between urban networks (foreland-hinterland-rearland) and the periphery are changing rapidly. By analysing the development of the transport system, it is possible to draw elaborate graphs and matrices at meaningful moments in time. This allows Serruys to calculate and grasp how the ever-changing centrality values of urban centres shapes and reshapes urban networks and the relations between them. In the eighteenth century, the highly urbanised Austrian Netherlands built out the world’s densest road network. Belgium, both rich in urban and transport historiography, is therefore an ideal case-study.