Atlas of the Dutch urban landscape: a millennium of spatial development

摘要

The Netherlands is the most densely urbanized country in Europe. This outstandingly designed, and very beautiful atlas provides a synthesis of a millennium of urban spatial development for the 35 largest Dutch towns, as they were in 2010, when the research for the atlas began. The book derives from ajoint project of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology and was first published with a Dutch text in 2014. It rightly attracted reviews giving it the highest praise. This revised edition in English gives its findings wider circulation in the scholarly community, as well as amongst the general public. It is a book that is overtly embedded in the work of urban morpholo-gists and the techniques of town-plan analysis, and also aims to revive the Dutch contribution to the European Historic Towns Atlas project for the modern age by using GIS and computer-generated graphics, together with comparative study.