Samenvatting

Climate change with sea level rise cast a spell on spatial planning in The Netherlands, adding further unrest to the control of urban development in the north-east of Noord-Brabant. The pressure from the Randstad is felt already today in this peripheral zone, bound by the Meuse and the precautionary measures taken to counter the threats of flooding. The need for urban extension may well press even harder right here, between Rosmalen and Oss, on the former border of the southern Netherlands, part of the former defense line and inundation area called de Zuiderwaterlinie. Different types of urban development are projected in distinct zones related to types of subsoil, from transient types of settlement to more static and definitive ones. To this is added a reflection on the possible urban dynamics within the estimated different phases of growth in correlation with the effects of sea level rise in the Netherlands as a whole, which conjures up a fascinating future image of ‘moving cities’.