>This kind of confidence in architecture and urban planning is becoming more and more evident in the city of Charleroi. Georgios Maillis was appointed by the socialist mayor in 2013 as the Charleroi bouwmeester. This municipality, together with its metropolitan area, has a total population of more than half a million people. From a post-industrial area in decline, it is now embracing a more diversified economy and attracting new residents. Maïllis and his team, assisted by architects from all over Belgium, are rightly convinced that this is above all a spatial, infrastructural and architectonic challenge. As such, Charleroi is evolving into a model city for an architectural policy in the 21st century.
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Amusingly and to everybody’s suprise
>This kind of confidence in architecture and urban planning is becoming more and more evident in the city of Charleroi. Georgios Maillis was appointed by the socialist mayor in 2013 as the Charleroi bouwmeester. This municipality, together with its metropolitan area, has a total population of more than half a million people. From a post-industrial area in decline, it is now embracing a more diversified economy and attracting new residents. Maïllis and his team, assisted by architects from all over Belgium, are rightly convinced that this is above all a spatial, infrastructural and architectonic challenge. As such, Charleroi is evolving into a model city for an architectural policy in the 21st century.