Urbanisation and industrialisation of Schiphol and the Amsterdam-Schiphol region 1900–45

Few studies have been conducted on the relationship between urbanisation and airport development, not only for the early years of airfield development in the 1920s and 1930s, but also during the opening decades of the post-Second World War period. In this chapter – and in Chapter 5 – we analyse the causes and consequences of the rise and development of Schiphol airport in relation to urbanisation and urban development of the Amsterdam-Schiphol region. In doing so, we hope to fill this gap in the literature.