The number of inhabitants of the four largest Dutch cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, has stabilised since the mid-1980s. This stability in population size, however, hides considerable dynamics in population composition, especially regarding ethnicity, household type and...

In many European metropolitan regions, new economic centres have emerged at the edge of large cities or in their (post-)suburban areas. This paper explores the possible contribution of these new centres to a more sustainable regional development of European metropolitan regions. The realization...

The process of population redistribution is influenced by a complex set of factors which can be grouped in economic, socio-cultural, demographic and policy factors. Most countries in Europe have to a certain extent tried to influence population redistribution through policy measures, mostly in...