Flanders - one of the least forested regions in Europe - is in desperate need for more forest. A correlation exists between its low forest cover and the increasing ecological disasters. The territory's mechanisms of urbanism and planning tend to further purge out the forest. Forest urbanism as a term investigates the possibility for a productive relation between the forest and urbanism.Six typological case studies based on soil as a qualifier build a body of knowledge on forest urbanism in the dispersed Flemish territory, solidified in a graphic "Forest Urbanism Frame". Its vertical dissection leads to a historic perspective along six time periods, while its transversal dissection allows to distill the three main concepts: the forest and urban structures influence each other in their cyclic interaction; they are both spaces of multiplicity that can coexist in one another; finally, the productive nature of their relation depends on the image of the forest in society.-- Contracubierta