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Constructing for the Present and Future: Brussels as Proof of Concept for Adaptive Reuse and Circularity

22.12.2025, Nina Burke

Cities are under growing pressure to cut emissions, respond to housing shortages, and rethink how we build and rebuild. More and more, the question is not what to construct next, but what we already have and how we choose to work with it. Brussels offers a concrete example of how adaptive reuse can move from ambition to practice when policy, design, and implementation begin to align.

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