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The heritage built during the 1939-1999 period features prominently in Brussels.
This issue, called “Focus 1939-1999”, aims to raise public awareness of the importance of our recent heritage.
How do we preserve it, ensure its sustainability and enhance its value? These are the main questions addressed in this new issue, which highlights the heritage policies and scientific research from which this “young” heritage has benefited in recent years.
Now available in bookshops and from our partners: at CIVA and at the Halles Saint-Géry.
Feel free to ask your bookshop to order it from the distributor Nord-Sud.
- CIVA – Bookshop
Rue de l’Ermitage 55, 1050 Brussels - Halles Saint-Géry
Place Saint-Géry 1, 1000 Brussels
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The architectural heritage inventory 1939-1999
Urban is continuing its work to enhance contemporary heritage, and in 2024, it put online the thematic inventory of Brussels architecture built between 1939 and 1999.
More than 1,700 illustrated notes document a wide range of buildings, specific typologies and new architectural programmes that were significant during this period.
This is an urgent visual inventory, which forms the basis for a better understanding of this rich architectural period, and could eventually serve as a basis for various policy choices.
Why does Urban publish?
Urban’s publishing policy is closely linked to its public service mission and its land management tasks.
Since 2018, this policy has had the following objectives: raising public awareness of the urban environment by communicating on its history and evolution; sharing the knowledge Urban’s work has produced with the regional stakeholders and with a wider public; boosting Urban’s brand image and contributing to its fundamental mission of raising the Region’s profile.
These objectives are pursued through a range of publications organised into a few main collections. Recently, two new collections, “#Urban Research” (2020) and “Heritage of Tomorrow” (2021) have been added to the three main collections that existed already and are still “active”: “Bruxelles Ville d’Art et d’Histoire” (Brussels, city of art and history), “Bruxelles Patrimoines” (Brussels Heritage) and “Histoire & Restauration” (History and Restoration).
The “Bruxelles Patrimoines” magazine
The “Bruxelles Patrimoines” magazine (Brussels Heritage) discusses the region’s multifaceted heritage from an interdisciplinary perspective. History, techniques and heritage management, but also incorporating heritage into urban planning, are all covered in thematic sections. Through the magazine, Urban shares its thoughts and expertise on current urban issues.
Publishing this magazine makes it possible to highlight and promote Urban’s heritage management tasks and professions, past and future; share the knowledge developed while carrying out the administration’s mission; promote and disseminate specific know-how and working methods.
