The strong world-wide urbanisation trend calls for a repositioning of cities, especially the large cities with a global impact. These cities tend to become economic, logistic and political powerhouses and are increasingly involved in a competition on their integral performance. The present paper...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Cities, cooperation, and resilience in the face of COVID-19 -- Chapter 2. The resilience of cities to COVID-19: A literature review and application to Dutch cities (Jeroen van Haaren) -- Chapter 3. A subjective geographer’s experience of pandemic and...

This paper aims to examine the critical conditions for success and failure for the new generation of ethnic entrepreneurs in the creative industries in modern Dutch urban areas, in terms of their entrepreneurial behaviour with a particular focus on their personal and business characteristics and...

This paper takes for granted the structural urbanisation trend in our world. It argues that there is a global competition among world cities in different parts of our planet. It aims to map out the relative disparities among a preselected set of major global cities by offering a benchmark...