HORNIS, WILLEMIEKE; ECK, JAN RITSEMA VAN - In: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 99 (2008) 5, pp. 619-628
'Ommeland' is an old Dutch word that refers to the land around a town or city: a peri-urban area. It is an important spatial category: the peri-urban areas of the 24 most central cities in the Netherlands, excluding the cities themselves, house almost 40 per cent of the national population. In...