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110 The vertical city
Lacking available data, let’s hypothesize that this is
also true for networks.
In less than fifty years, half of the constructions
and networks in the city have thus been renovated or
rebuilt.
In particular, environmental pressure is very strong
concerning buildings constructed in the past fifty years,
many of them very poorly built.
More vertical reconstruction would increase the
density of the existing city and should favor its poly-
centric development in order to limit increases on the
demands of the networks.
Cultural acceptance
It is not easy to evaluate the enthusiasm or rejection
that the project of the small vertical city would provoke
because a pertinent example does not exist in Europe.
an annual average (over 18 years, 1996-2013) of 95,000 m2 demoli-
tion (30% housing), of 1.260.000 m2 renovations (54% housing) and
797,000 m2 of new construction (62% housing). The gross devel-
oped surface P was 98.481,952m2 (in 2001) for 964.405 inhabitants,
or 102 m2/h. Adding the statistics for the period of 2001 to and
including 2012, that means 1.383.085 m2 demolition (30% housing),
19.009.967 m2 renovations (56% housing), and 10,580,086 m2 of new
constructions (51% of housing), the gross developed surface P would
be 107.679.453 m2 end of 2012, for 1.138.854 inhabitants, or 95 m2/h. It
is also interesting to note the footprint of only the construction (C)
was of 33.259.906 m2 in 2001 for a territory, excluding the Forêt de
Soignes, of 144,43 km² or C/S = 23%. (source: sprb.irisnet.be).
