Long-term perspectives for human settlements: The future of the Randstad,the Netherlands

This article deals with a report drawn up under the responsibility of the National Physical Planning Agency, forming the Dutch contribution to the project on Long-Term Perspectives for Human Settlement Developments in the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) region initiated by the UN ECE Committee on Housing, Building and Planning. The report follows a tradition built up by the National Physical Planning Agency in its efforts to compile physical planning scenarios. For this reason an account is given of the Agency's activities with respect to scenarios. Section 2 deals with decision making concerning the contents of the study. The work process is described in section 3 and the results presented in section 4. In conclusion, some evaluative remarks are made in section 5.