OASE is an independent, international, bilingual (Dutch/English) journal on architecture, urban planning and landscape design. In more than 20 years, Oase has developed into the professional journal in which a reflective and critical attitude toward architecture, urban planning and landscape design occupies centre stage. Oase is published three times a year.OASE 63 is devoted to the development of the countryside. So far this theme has been conceived from an urban perspective. Everything, even the development and the protection of nature in the countryside serve the city. OASE 63 reverses this perspective. City nor urbanisation but the countryside and the agrarian industry constitute the starting point. The divide between city and countryside is looked at from different points of view: the reinterpretation of history, contemporary designs, analysis, considerations and the development of theories.