ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to unravel the social and institutional dynamics of how a small group of pioneering urban activists engaged with some of the key actors in a deprived neighbourhood of Brussels in this urban renewal process. The LimiteLimite project's most visible realization was the LimiteLimite tower, but it also initiated a chain of spin-off projects and influenced the institutional and associational configuration of urban governance in important ways. The initial driver of the LimiteLimite dynamic was directly related to its strategic positioning in a socio-spatial environment characterized by friction and noncommunication among actors operating on the local and metropolitan scales. During the LimiteLimite process, alternative mechanisms for engendering urban renewal were experimented with, namely effectuation and complex good provision. Complex goods provision was engendered through the divergent demands of the actors, differentiation that arose from the socially heterogeneous and fragmented location of the project.
