ABSTRACT
Unlike most north European industrial cities, Rotterdam still has a powerful reason for being in existence. From its earliest days this was a port. But it was the nineteenth-century industrialization of Germany, and of Great Britain, that
4.1 INTRODUCTION
Where the river flows down to the sea
Rotterdam symbolizes the struggle of western Europe to achieve worldclass status, at a time when the city is coming to terms with more dramatic social, ethnic and economic change than at any time in its 750 years.
