Christian Dessouroux

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Université Libre de Bruxelles

Over the last decade, the interest in the ‘green’ and ‘circular’ economy has gained traction among business and policy makers. Based on the idea of decoupling economic growth from resource consumption and environmental impacts, the concepts are supported at the European level in order to boost new economic cycles in times of crises. Translated at m...

Les cartes à l’échelle mondiale contribuent à la construction de nos représentations mentales du Monde. Si le rôle des projections a souvent été étudié, le choix plus ou moins contraint de la maille étatique ne contribue pas moins à construire une vision particulière du monde marquée par l’existence de discontinuités au niveau des frontières nation...

This synopsis highlights the various facets of the housing problem in Brussels through different approaches (demographic, legal, political and sociological). It does not constitute an exhaustive state of knowledge regarding housing, but presents a panorama of current knowledge and challenges. It highlights the different dimensions of housing in the...

This synopsis highlights the various facets of the housing problem in Brussels through different approaches (demographic, legal, political and sociological). It does not constitute an exhaustive state of knowledge regarding housing, but presents a panorama of current knowledge and challenges. It highlights the different dimensions of housing in the...

This synopsis highlights the various facets of the housing problem in Brussels through different approaches (demographic, legal, political and sociological). It does not constitute an exhaustive state of knowledge regarding housing, but presents a panorama of current knowledge and challenges. It highlights the different dimensions of housing in the...

Energy transition consists in a shift from polluting and exhaustible resources to clean and renewable ones, but also in a move towards energy parsimony. This transition is one of the major challenges our economies face today. In this paper we are interested in the territorial impacts of such a transition. We develop a prospective method, combining...

À travers l’analyse de quatre ensembles résidentiels historiques (Place Saint-Michel, 18e s. ; quartiers Notre-Dame-aux-Neiges et Berkendael, fin 19e s. ; Centre International Rogier, mi 20e s.), nous nous intéressons à la production matérielle de l’espace urbain élitaire à Bruxelles, à travers les lieux, les acteurs, les dispositifs et les impacts...

Bruxelles a vu naître au cours des vingt dernières années un nombre non négligeable d’ensembles résidentiels présentant une physionomie enclavée. Contemporains des gated communities apparues un peu partout dans le monde, ces ensembles s’en distinguent par leur taille réduite et l’absence d’attributs sécuritaires ou communautaires significatifs. L’a...

The Belgian residential landscape has considerably changed since the 1950s. If economic activity and collective housing continue to be concentrated in urban areas, the proliferation of single-family dwellings in suburban areas - dating back to the 19th century - continues unabated. Other developments are more recent, such as an increase in refurbis...

This article provides an overview of the spatial development of office building production in Brussels over the past fifty years. Due to the disappearance of agricultural and industrial jobs, most of the people who work in the Region now work in offices (two-thirds of the 724 000 workers). The continual spatial expansion of areas occupied by office...

This article provides an overview of the spatial development of office building production in Brussels over the past fifty years. Due to the disappearance of agricultural and industrial jobs, most of the people who work in the Region now work in offices (two-thirds of the 724 000 workers). The continual spatial expansion of areas occupied by office...

This article provides an overview of the spatial development of office building production in Brussels over the past fifty years. Due to the disappearance of agricultural and industrial jobs, most of the people who work in the Region now work in offices (two-thirds of the 724 000 workers). The continual spatial expansion of areas occupied by office...

The rehabilitation of public spaces is often considered as key policy instrument of contemporary urban policies. In Brussels, the renewal of streets, squares or parks has been a core ingredient of a broader policy framework aimed at delivering an urban revitalisation since the early 1990s. In this paper, we will set out a geography of the renewed p...

The rehabilitation of public spaces is often considered as key policy instrument of contemporary urban policies. In Brussels, the renewal of streets, squares or parks has been a core ingredient of a broader policy framework aimed at delivering an urban «revitalisation» since the early 1990s. In this paper, we will set out a geography of the renewed...

La navette de travail est une constante de l’agglomération bruxelloise depuis la révolution industrielle. Largement structurés par le réseau ferroviaire, les flux s’appuient sur un grand nombre de foyers émetteurs périphériques. Au milieu du XX e siècle, le basculement vers l’automobile a accentué le phénomène des navettes en favorisant de fait l’e...

Economic geography has a long tradition in the study of the management and distribution of shared resources within the socio-economic spectrum. We argue that the debates on sustainability, public vs. private and governance issues that emerged both in geographical and environmental research, can be combined to produce a geographical study of the soc...

The privatisation of public space is an important part of the analysis of contemporary urban spaces. The apparent spatial progression of privatisation is being emphasised by more and more sources, along with the many forms it can take. Given the scant level of interest shown so far in defining either privatisation or the various ongoing processes,...

The privatisation of public space is an important part of the analysis of contemporary urban spaces. The apparent spatial progression of privatisation is being emphasised by more and more sources, along with the many forms it can take. Given the scant level of interest shown so far in defining either privatisation or the various ongoing processes,...

This article introduces the papers gathered in the issue. After an investigation of the semantic content of the «privatisation» concept, the article sketches an overall picture of the new regulation patterns of urban spaces, in terms of access and use, so much in the public as in the private realm. In each case, it seeks to find out the factors beh...

The article examines the evolution of the Belgian electoral map, from the property qualification to the latest parliamentary elections in June 1999. It stresses the permanences of the regional electoral behaviours and those of their determining factors while placing the advances and breaks in the context of the long-lasting phases of the social and...