Town and countryside in a Dutch perspective Town and countryside in a Dutch perspective Pim Kooij Nederlands Agronomisch Historisch Instituut Groningen/Wageningen 2010 Historia Agriculturae 42 Published by: Nederlands Agronomisch Historisch Instituut (NAHI) Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen Internet: www.rug.nl/let/nahi E-mail:
[email protected] Photo cover: Studio Gaaikema, Groningen. Picture cover: Grote Markt Groningen, 1810 by H.L. Mijling (Groninger Museum). ISBN 978-90-367-4143-9 © 2010 Nederlands Agronomisch Historisch Instituut All rights reserved. No part of this book may be stored in a computerized system or reproduced in any form, by print, photo print, microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher. Cover design: Frank de Wit Print: Grafisch Centrum Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Production: Erwin H. Karel Contents Preface 1 1 Urbanization. What’s in a name? 5 2 Peripheral cities and their regions in the Dutch urban system until 29 1900 3 Urban history in the Netherlands 45 4 The images of Dutch cities in the nineteenth and twentieth 51 centuries 5 Where the action is. The introduction and acceptance of 67 infrastructural innovations in Dutch cities 1850-1950 6 Migrants in Dutch cities at the end of the nineteenth century 81 7 The destruction of Dutch cities during the Second World war 101 8 The Randstad conurbation: a floating metropolis in the Dutch 111 Delta (co-author Paul van der Laar) 9 Groningen: central place and peripheral city 135 10 Fingerprints of an urban elite: the case of a Dutch city in the 163 nineteenth century 11 Dutch and Russian regions compared.