ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a number of aspects of the power of the relationship between landscape, economy and city/metropolis. As well as presenting a few international comparisons, the chapter looks at the spatial position of some of the cities within the Randstad and at their metropolitan potential from the perspective of landscape, centrality and infrastructure networks. It identifies examples – bright spots – from which a feasible design for a recognisable metropolitan space could possibly be derived. Accessibility measured in time is one of the fundaments of facilities at the metropolitan level. Many of the major European and North American metropolises are characterised by a unique individual relationship between their topographical and economic position at the scale of their metropolitan space, whereby a particular metropolitan landscape can be experienced. Accessibility measured in time is one of the fundaments of facilities at the metropolitan level.
