Cultural facilities and urban development: WIELS contemporary art centre and the transformation of a working-class neighbourhood
The opening in 2007 of the first contemporary art centre in Brussels in the lower part of the municipality of Forest, which is characterised by an industrial urban fabric and socioeconomic insecurity, seems to have marked a new era for this neighbourhood. WIELS defines itself as “an international la...
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Language: | English |
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Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles
2017-07-01
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Series: | Brussels Studies |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/1531 |