This paper first addresses the urgency of developing urban GIS to tackle the problems caused by urbanisation; then review the current state-of-the-art of the development of urban GIS across the country.

We are living through a global urban transition, but the timing of this transition has varied significantly across countries and regions. This geographic variation in matters, both theoretically substantively. Yet contemporary debates on urbanism hinge primarily questions universalism versus particularism, at expense attention to how history geography collide shape processes. Specifically, they...

This paper examines the relationship between urbanisation and globalisation beyond the so-called global cities that have been the focus of so much contemporary urban research. The paper argues that there is a problematic polarisation in urban studies between research on ‘global’ cities and work on presumably ‘non-global’ cities. The existing geographical literature on scale, place and uneven de...

Although the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries, two thirds of the land area are still under agricultural use. Major socio-economic changes are however expected for the agricultural sector. The increasing globalisation of economic relations in agriculture and the possible reduction of European price support to farmers are examples of such developments that may affect agr...