Very much enjoying the guided walk of Floréal and Le Logis, garden suburbs in Watermael-Boitsfort on the edge of Brussels. On next weekend too, with events around the region, celebrating 100 years of cités-jardins in Brussels agenda.brussels/fr/article/bru…
Notable how bottom-up and self-organising the community was in the early days. Particularly in Floréal which was linked to the socialist party and particularly housed the print workers of its journal Le Peuple, whose amazing 30s building still stands in central Brussels.
You can tell they were inspired by the English garden city movement. Just need a couple of pubs (though like a lot of garden suburbs, they were deliberately built without cafés).
Next weekend’s programme.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 14 May 2022. View the original thread.