ABSTRACT
Looking back at this book’s numerous contributions, by way of an epilogue, we would like to examine some of the major challenges highlighted by the current debate about the future of the Amsterdam region. The book reflects the overall spatial impact of economic, social, cultural, and institutional trends, extrapolating the line of history into the future. The material analyzed is highly complex and dynamic, by no means complete, and in many cases remaining open-ended. Even the contours of the “region to be” are in many respects uncertain. There are no solid definitions of the new metropolitan configuration which is taking shape at the regional level, nor of the scale of the regional city and the institutional framework. We shall attempt first to delineate the contours of the emergent region, including the uncertainties which exist about them, and then highlight a number of strategic dilemmas as a contribution to the metropolitan debate.
