ABSTRACT
This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining which (collective) arrangements, including their ambient factors and the visual representations of the city and urbanity, have influenced this metamorphosis in a decisive manner.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|113 pages
Theory
chapter 2|35 pages
Spatial-economic transformation and the rise of the nebula city
Theoretical considerations and conceptual framework
part II|275 pages
Application
chapter 5|38 pages
The rise and development of Schiphol airport
From a military airfield to a municipal airport 1916–45
chapter 7|53 pages
Spatial-economic transformation of the Amsterdam-Schiphol region 1945–80
From monocentric to polynuclear urban system
chapter 8|55 pages
From mainport to airport city
The spatial-economic transformation of Schiphol since 1980