A Vectorial Analysis of the Reorientation of the Transport Network in the Austrian Netherlands

  • Michael Serruys (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference

Description

The author demonstrates that by replacing roads and waterways by vectors, it is possible to show in which geographical direction clusters of cities (urban networks) are economically interested. This is done by using the Austrian Netherlands as case-study. It shows that the four erstwhile north-south oriented urban networks (clustered along the North Sea coast, the river Scheldt, the river Meuse and the river Moselle) reorient themselves along a east-west axis during the eighteenth century.
PeriodNov 2004
Event title1st Flemish-Dutch Conference on the Economic and Social History of the Low Countries before 1850
Event typeConference
LocationAntwerp, BelgiumShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational