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The Randstad metropolitan region in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a successful polycentric metropolis. This book will provide explanations of the place of complex city regions in the globalisation process, a critical analysis of the Randstad and lessons for strategic planning in other metropolitan regions.
Table des matières
PART I Introduction 1. Introducing the Randstad: a polycentric metropolis
PART II The origins of the Randstad 2. The making of the urban structure of the Randstad 3. Urban conf igurations in a dynamic delta landscape 4. Rotterdam: a dynamic polder city in the Randstad 5. The global petroleumscape in the Dutch Randstad: oilspaces and mindsets
PART III The dynamics of a complex metropolitan region 6. Randstad Holland between functional entity and political desire 7. Randstad: spatial planning, polycentrism and urban networks 8. The Randstad and its mainports: towards new heterogeneous discourses in Dutch planning 9. Impact of social housing on the social structure of the Randstad 10. Interaction in the Delta: culture, convention and knowledge clusters in the Randstad
PART IV Governance, planning and design 11. Randstad: from a spatial planning concept to a place name 12. Governance and power in the metropolitan regions of the Randstad 13. In control of urban sprawl? Examining the effectiveness of national spatial planning in the Randstad, 1958-2018 14. Probing and planning the future of the Dutch Randstad 15. The (im)possible design of the Randstad: perspectives for the future
PART V Conclusion and outlook 16. Conclusion and outlook
A propos de l'auteur
Wil Zonneveld is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and leader of the Section Spatial Planning and Strategy, Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment. He published extensively on Dutch and European spatial planning, with a particular emphasis on the conceptualization and design of space and territory. He is co-editor of the
Routledge Handbook of Regional Design.
Vincent Nadin is Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy and former Head of the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He is also Visiting Professor at South China University of Technology School of Architecture. He is joint author with the late Barry Cullingworth of the leading textbook
Town and Country Planning in the UK, co-author of
European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation and Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge international peer-reviewed journal
Planning Practice and Research.
Résumé
The Randstad metropolitan region in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a successful polycentric metropolis. This book will provide explanations of the place of complex city regions in the globalisation process, a critical analysis of the Randstad and lessons for strategic planning in other metropolitan regions.
