Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.