Metropolitan Employment Developments: An Inquiry into Some Aspects of Economic Change in the Larger City-Regions of the Netherlands

摘要

In many, if not all larger metropolitan areas of the Westernworld countries urban planners are confronted with a rapidly increasing spatial mismatch of people and employment, resulting in a swelling stream of commuters, who tend to travel longer distances, often to a wide variety of workplaces. There can be no doubt that this mismatch is causing many problems in terms of traffic congestion, environmental pollution, energy consumption and long travelling times. In this report the analysis focuses on metropolitan economic developments, with special, empirical reference to four major metropolitan areas in the Netherlands.