- 1 Mr. van Schagen recently retired from the position of Senior Lecturer, Comprehensive Planning Course, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands.
- 2 Personal communication from F. van Schagen, dated 21 March, 1969
- 3 See, for example, J. Van Veen, Dredge, Drain and Reclaim—The Art of a Nation (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962), p. 196.
- 4 Van Veen, op. cit., footnote 3, p. 119, refers it to be 550,000 acres; Y. Dror, Physical Planning in the Netherlands (mimeographed, publisher not known), p. 49, refers it to be 546,000 acres; Encyclopedia Americana, 1968, Vol. 29, p. 819, and Encyclopedia Britannica, 1966, Vol. 23, pp. 991–92, refer the area to be 500,000 and 480,000 acres, respectively.
- 5 Van Veen, op. cit., footnote 2, pp. 111 and 115.
- 6 F. Van Schagen, “The Dutch Delta Plan,”Snowball (The Hague: Institute of Social Studies, Oct. 1966), a diagram opposite page 31; and J. Bardet, “Vital Artery Under the IJ,”Land and Water, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1967), p. 28.
- 7 A. K. Dutt, “Levels of Planning in the Netherlands, with Particular Reference to Regional Planning,”Annals, Vol. 58 (1968), p. 674.
- 8 Statesman's Year Book, 1967–1968, pp. 1280–81.
- 9 Dutt, op. cit., footnote 7, p. 671.
- 10 Dutt, op. cit., footnote 7, p. 671.
- 11 Holland A Short Survey (New York: The Netherlands Information Service), p. 4; J. P. Thijsse: “The Netherlands in the Year 2000,”Land and Water, Vol. 1 (1966–67), p. 6.
- 12 Explanation of the Report of “The West of the Land” (The Hague: Institute of Social Studies, mimeographed), p. 13.
- 13 Dutt, op. cit., footnote 7, p. 677.
- 14 Dutt, op. cit., footnote 7, p. 676 (see Figure 2).
- 15 Thijsse, op. cit., footnote 11.
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