“Every fortress must possess a certain particular state, a certain power of resistance, which in men is called good health. In peacetime, we officers of the engineering corps are responsible for keeping the fortress in good health. [...] The art of defense must constantly be in transformation; it is not exempt from the general law of this world: stasis is death.”[1]
“The words “politics of progress” or “of change” are devoid of meaning if, behind the electric megalopolis, the city knows no rest, if we can’t distinguish the obscure silhouette of the old fortress struggling against its inertia, for whom stasis is death.”[2]
Foto's genomen op de kleine ring, het traject van de oude stadsomwalling, te Brussel, januari 2024.
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