Nostalgic landscape : planning between conservation and modernisation = Nostalgisch landschap : planning tussen musealisering en modernisering (original) (raw)

Dream and reality 'There is hardly any remaining distinction between city and country. Brabant has become a global suburbia. There is no real city, but nor are there any more real villages.' 1 This is a telling statement of reality in the present-day urbanised territory of Brabant. The suburban condition, which swamps the whole of the province's territory and at present seems to be the dominant form of habitation, hardly allows for any dichotomous division between city and country. 2 It forms, rather, a 'step in a new psy chological domain which, unlike the city, is entirely domesticated'. 3 Harm Tilman, Ontwerpen aan Brabant 2050, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1999, p. 17. For a more extended look at this suburban condition, see Harm Tilman, 'Brabant Zandstad; van vergeten grensge bied naar dynamische contact