Brussels was the jewel of Europe at the beginning of the last century, elegant and full of remarkable creations by both famous and unknown architects. It had its poor and unhealthy parts which were endemic to all major European cities in that period but it nevertheless had a special elegant and harmonious homogeneity of its own. The boulevards leading to principal points of the urban web often opened to remarkable views and perspectives and there was ample space for the parks which provided the lungs of this complex built to be at the service of its occupants. In the main, it...