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Liège is also known as a traditionally socialist city. In 1991, powerful Socialist André Cools , a former Deputy Prime Minister, was gunned down in front of his girlfriend's apartment. Many suspected that the assassination was related to a corruption scandal which swept the Socialist Party , and the Belgian Federal Government in general ...
The strong working-class character of the city is reflected in the leading role it plays in Belgian socialist politics. The effects of late 20th-century deindustrialization produced many challenges for the city, particularly high unemployment rates, but the economy rebounded somewhat as the city’s service sector expanded.
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The calling of Liège was henceforth sealed for the entire Ancien Régime period: it was to be an episcopal city and soon bristled with the spires of many church towers. Legia sive Leodium vulgo Liege 1649 - p02-Hollar-C2Ch2-4-web.jpg Wenceslas Hollar Legia sive Loedium vulgo Liege 1649 Heritage funds, Ulysse Capitaine library C2Ch2-4
Jun 5, 2017 · Socialist cities have most often been studied as manifestations of the socialist system itself, linked to the political fate of the Communist Parties in power during their design, construction, and expansion. This article revisits the socialist city and argues for the validity of the concept historically and in the present.
- Kimberly Elman Zarecor
- 2018
Jan 20, 2015 · Communal eating areas were arranged. Also, wide boulevards were crucial for marches and to have a clear path to and from the factory for the workers. The goals of the “socialist city” planners were to not just transform urban planning but human behavior, helping such spaces would breed the “urban human”.
Liège, with a metropolitan population of more than 500,000, lived through two decades of austerity while it balanced the books, as 5,000 jobs in the city bureaucracy were cut, local taxes were ...
THE BELGIAN SOCIALIST CITY IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD dr. Leen Meganck Art History department, Ghent University, Belgium Leen.Meganck@UGent.be Introduction This paper focuses on how in the interwar period the socialist city in Belgium was given shape. 1 As the political system was democratic, with a broad spectrum of political parties that had to ...
