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Enhancing the heritage of yesterday and building the city of tomorrow.

Urban is responsible for managing renovation grants, implementing regional policy on urban planning, implementing regional policy on the conservation of movable and immovable heritage and managing operational programmes such as the Neighbourhood Contracts / Sustainable Neighbourhoods and the Urban Policy. → Read more

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Submit and track a permit request.

MyPermit is the platform that allows you to submit, complete and track your planning and environmental permit applications online, as well as current public enquiries and permit decisions.

Art nouveau

Brussels, capital of Art Nouveau. On the occasion of Art Nouveau Brussels 2023, Urban finances a broad range of activities in order to promote and give greater publicity to Art Nouveau.

Public Spaces Manual in the Brussels-Capital Region

Discover this evolving document, which incorporates the various guides, standards, plans and tools that define the regional objectives with regard to the development of public spaces, and gives project developers the keys to designing their projects.

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heritage

The Cultural Heritage Directorate implements regional heritage conservation policy.

urban renewal

The Urban Renovation Directorate aims to fight cankers and repair the urban fabric.

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Heritage Days 2024. Jonathan Ortegat © urban.brussels

For its 37th edition, the Heritage Days invite you to rediscover the tangible and intangible heritage of the city under the theme « ART DECO, Roaring Twenties, Crash Years »

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From 12 December 2024 to 12 March 2025, the exhibition 39-99 at the Halles Saint-Géry, organised with the collaboration of Urban, will offer everyone a captivating insight into the history of Brussels.

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Exhibition Echoes Of Art Deco © Silvia Cappellari, Fondation Boghossian.

Throughout 2025, and to mark the centenary of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Urban and visit.brussels invite you to discover the different facets of Brussels’ Art Deco world!

urban.brussels (previously Brussels Urbanism and Heritage) is an administrative body in the Brussels Capital Region. Its main objective is to support the sustainable territorial development of the Region. Urban.brussels implements regional policy in terms of urban planning, cultural heritage and management of operational programmes for urban regeneration.

urban.brussels carries out missions relating to grants for the renovation and embellishment of facades as well as legal advice, in particular the reform of the CoBAT. Drawing on significant internal expertise, Urban.brussels plays a central role in raising public awareness of the fact that we are building the city of the future today.

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