Cities are gaining in popularity. But is neither possible nor desirable for everyone to live in the densely built-up and often expensive inner city. Many people opt for the suburbs: close to the city, but not too close. Terraced houses and flats near schools and shops are often still affordable in the suburbs.
Urban renewal has for a long time concentrated chiefly on the city center and the 19th-century quarters of our cities. On the basis of a number of studies and designs, this exhibition shows the exceptional potential latent in the suburbs – the City Outside the City. A variety of projects outline the ways the spatial diversity of green areas and residential districts can be developed. But this exhibition is more than just a presentation: it seeks out the outskirts of the city, old country estates, garden districts, shopping centres and dense industrial estates that characterise the City Outside the City not only in Europe but elsewhere too. And it tries to find a new identity for the suburbs: both relaxed and urban.
Curator Flemish Architecture Institute produced by Flemish Architecture Institute, deSingel International Arts Campus
Vernissage
Opening lecture on Thursday 26 February 2015 in the Blue hall in deSingel at 8 p.m.
The opening lecture is free but it is necessary to enroll.
Practical information
open from Wednesday until Sunday, from 2 until 6 p.m., closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
entry price: 5 euro
tickets for sale at entrance exhibition
curator and production: Flemish Architecture Institute, deSingel International Arts Campus