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The western part of the Netherlands has been an urban landscape for centuries. Four hundred years ago, six of the ten largest cities in the country were located there. Ranked by decreasing size, these were the cities of Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem, Delft, and Dordrecht (compare Figure 1.1). The concentration of the Dutch population and of the employment opportunities in this area has only increased since then. Today, the four largest cities of the Netherlands — Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht — form the anchors of the horseshoe-shaped urban constellation that has become known as Randstad Holland. Over six million people inhabit this area, which thereby forms one of the largest urban regions of Western Europe.
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Dieleman, F.M., Musterd, S. (1992). The Restructuring of Randstad Holland. In: Dieleman, F.M., Musterd, S. (eds) The Randstad: A Research and Policy Laboratory. The GeoJournal Library, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3448-6_1
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