This article ties the expansion of the (European) welfare state model to Belgian national politics and exemplifies how welfare state concepts, such as universalism and decommodification, were adopted in the political campaign for Flemish nationalism in a country on its path to federalism. It focuses on the construction of leisure infrastructure in Flanders, the northern (Flemish-speaking) region of the country, and scrutinizes the role that planning, urbanism, and architecture played in the political project that was set up to strengthen the Flemish community and craft a sense of Flemish cultural identity. It furthermore relates these developments to the situation of pillarization in the country and explicates the convergence of these different forces by narrating the developments in one (telling) case study municipality (Dilbeek) in the Flemish border of the capital city.

本文将（欧洲）福利国家模型的扩展与比利时的国家政治联系起来，并举例说明了在法兰德斯民族主义走向联邦制的国家的政治运动中，如何采用福利国家概念，例如普遍主义和反商品化。它着重于该国北部（讲佛兰德语的地区）法兰德斯的休闲基础设施的建设，并详细研究了规划，城市化和建筑在旨在加强佛兰德社区和手工艺的政治项目中所起的作用。佛兰芒文化认同感。