Making place for the modern road : the road exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930)
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- David Peleman (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article describes how two temporary road exhibitions before World War II functioned as tools to frame the Belgian road project as a rich cultural venture. In the absence of a comprehensive policy and any diverse cultural engagement by the government, a particular relationship between culture, technology, and society crystallized in the museological arrangement of these exhibitions. The article argues that, while these exhibitions relate the road project to a broad cultural field, they simultaneously instill a rigid way of reasoning about the modern road.
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- Belgium, engineering, exhibitions, representation, road history, urban design
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5793168
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- Peleman, David. “Making Place for the Modern Road : The Road Exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930).” TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 51–68, doi:10.3167/TRANS.2015.050106.
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- Peleman, D. (2015). Making place for the modern road : the road exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930). TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES, 5(1), 51–68. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2015.050106
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- Peleman, David. 2015. “Making Place for the Modern Road : The Road Exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930).” TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES 5 (1): 51–68. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2015.050106.
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- Peleman, David. 2015. “Making Place for the Modern Road : The Road Exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930).” TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES 5 (1): 51–68. doi:10.3167/TRANS.2015.050106.
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- 1.Peleman D. Making place for the modern road : the road exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930). TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES. 2015;5(1):51–68.
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- [1]D. Peleman, “Making place for the modern road : the road exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930),” TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 51–68, 2015.
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