Pier Giorgio Danella
Belgium - Doel, ghost city
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Belgium - Doel, ghost city - A windmill.. A nuclear power plant alongside the Schelda river and a portacontainer entering the port of Antwerpen.
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A windmill.. A nuclear power plant alongside the Schelda river and a portacontainer entering the port of Antwerpen.
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - Road sign entering the village... Abandonated village, respect the residents
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Road sign entering the village... Abandonated village, respect the residents
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - A view of the abandonated village...
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A view of the abandonated village...
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - ...Kevin is 42 years old, lives near the nuclear power plant and has dedicated 24 years of his life so that Doel was spared from demolition. A battle won in the courtrooms, but also made up of real struggle, on the rooftops or by occupying the houses, all to avoid the demolition of the village. We walk together in the village in the meantime he says....
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...Kevin is 42 years old, lives near the nuclear power plant and has dedicated 24 years of his life so that Doel was spared from demolition. A battle won in the courtrooms, but also made up of real struggle, on the rooftops or by occupying the houses, all to avoid the demolition of the village. We walk together in the village in the meantime he says....
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - the port authority of Antwerpen didn't know where to park an old boat, so finally it was parked in Doel.
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the port authority of Antwerpen didn't know where to park an old boat, so finally it was parked in Doel.
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - A view of the principal road in Doel...
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A view of the principal road in Doel...
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - It is Saturday... many tourists and many curious people are visiting Doel, the ghost city, during the weekend.
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It is Saturday... many tourists and many curious people are visiting Doel, the ghost city, during the weekend.
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - It is terrible on weekend with motorbykers testing the tuned motorbikes and pushing the exhaust mufflers... with people testing the tuned cars and pushing the exhaust mufflers... ok just few people living there but no respect for this few people and no police.
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It is terrible on weekend with motorbykers testing the tuned motorbikes and pushing the exhaust mufflers... with people testing the tuned cars and pushing the exhaust mufflers... ok just few people living there but no respect for this few people and no police.
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - Deurganck-Dock - Doel on the left bank of the Schelde had to disappear to make way for the construction of a new pier, Dock. From 1960 there were discussions and planning going on. This is the story of a systematically "stop and go" and again "stop and go" project until 2018. A story of political interests and profits to be shared. The related port generates interest and billions of euros in profits. At the end of the 1960s, on the right bank of the Scheldt, the first villages, Lilo, Wilmrsdonk, Oorderen and Oosterweel, disappear, the port needs infrastructure and new docks for goods. Doel opposite on the left side of the same river, has its destiny sealed, disappearing to make way for a new pier. The slowdown of the world economy in the early 1970s halts the expansion on the "left side". About 30 years pass, and in 1998 the largest container terminal in Europe, Deurganck-Dock, is built a few meters from Doel. Doel's fate hangs in the balance once again
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Deurganck-Dock - Doel on the left bank of the Schelde had to disappear to make way for the construction of a new pier, Dock. From 1960 there were discussions and planning going on. This is the story of a systematically "stop and go" and again "stop and go" project until 2018. A story of political interests and profits to be shared. The related port generates interest and billions of euros in profits. At the end of the 1960s, on the right bank of the Scheldt, the first villages, Lilo, Wilmrsdonk, Oorderen and Oosterweel, disappear, the port needs infrastructure and new docks for goods. Doel opposite on the left side of the same river, has its destiny sealed, disappearing to make way for a new pier. The slowdown of the world economy in the early 1970s halts the expansion on the "left side". About 30 years pass, and in 1998 the largest container terminal in Europe, Deurganck-Dock, is built a few meters from Doel. Doel's fate hangs in the balance once again
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - ...By now only a dozen people live in the village and it has become the destination of groups of addicts, parties of stragglers, savage occupation, vandalism, looting. The last remaining inhabitants are afraid of the situation created but they resist. The Flemish government, which owns the houses to put an end to this urban decay, reacts by barring doors and windows with metal protection
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...By now only a dozen people live in the village and it has become the destination of groups of addicts, parties of stragglers, savage occupation, vandalism, looting. The last remaining inhabitants are afraid of the situation created but they resist. The Flemish government, which owns the houses to put an end to this urban decay, reacts by barring doors and windows with metal protection
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - ...By now only a dozen people live in the village and it has become the destination of groups of addicts, parties of stragglers, savage occupation, vandalism, looting. The last remaining inhabitants are afraid of the situation created but they resist. The Flemish government, which owns the houses to put an end to this urban decay, reacts by barring doors and windows with metal protection
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...By now only a dozen people live in the village and it has become the destination of groups of addicts, parties of stragglers, savage occupation, vandalism, looting. The last remaining inhabitants are afraid of the situation created but they resist. The Flemish government, which owns the houses to put an end to this urban decay, reacts by barring doors and windows with metal protection
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - ...Raymond Cap 77 years old, photographed in front of his house. I lived up to 64 years here in Doel. The state paid me 3 million Belgian francs (about 75,000 euros) for my house. To think that 2 years before leaving the house I had completely renovated it for 1 million Belgian francs.
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...Raymond Cap 77 years old, photographed in front of his house. I lived up to 64 years here in Doel. The state paid me 3 million Belgian francs (about 75,000 euros) for my house. To think that 2 years before leaving the house I had completely renovated it for 1 million Belgian francs.
Belgium - Doel, ghost city - The old petrol station in the village... now a graffiti plattform!
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The old petrol station in the village... now a graffiti plattform!

Belgium - Doel, ghost city

Belgium - Doel, the ghost ciy. The struggle of a community to save the village of Doel from demolition, it is also the victory of the citizens against political interests and against the logic of profit in the port area of Antwerp. A thirty-year battle. Doel is north of Antwerp and can be reached after crossing an impressive labyrinth of all orderly and functional streets, roundabouts, bridges and drawbridges, forced passages, crossing tracks, all lined with chemical plants, very long pipes, big chimneys, gas and oil deposits, towers and buildings of containers, a movement of trucks, vans and forklifts, so fast and frenetic that it seems to be in the middle of an anthill. Dozens and dozens of wind turbines complete this panorama. It is not finished yet, as if by magic the two gigantic towers of the Doel nuclear power plant emerge. Here we are in the northern part of the immense port of Antwerp, the second largest commercial port in Europe, after Rotterdam, for transhipped goods.
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