P. VAN BRABANT, A LOOK AT THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF BRUSSELS

The Brussels City Museum is dedicated to the history of Brussels in all its aspects: applied arts, urban development, politics and economic history and folklore. This guide discusses the first floor of the Museum. Here are displayed paintings, engravings,... More

The Brussels City Museum is dedicated to the history of Brussels in all its aspects: applied arts, urban development, politics and economic history and folklore. This guide discusses the first floor of the Museum. Here are displayed paintings, engravings, maps, plans and photographs that show what the city once looked like. The guide provides an explanation of Brussels’ urban development, with pieces from the Museum collection as a starting point. While the general structure is chronological, quarters, districts or buildings are in each case discussed within broader historical periods. There are also a number of references in the text to the current urban-development context. Less