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Table 1 Population and urban area in the 8 city-regions

From: Urban sprawl and growth management – drivers, impacts and responses in selected European and US cities

   

Population

Urban area

GDP

Case city

CC

Rural-Urban-Region (RUR)

2012 (pers.)

2006–2012 (annual %)

2012 (ha)

2006–2012 (annual %)

2006–2012 (annual %)

The Hague

NL

The Hague-Rotterdam

3 552 407

0.4%

73 318

0.8%

1.3%

Manchester

UK

Manchester-Liverpool

6 570 809

0.5%

155 898

0.1%

− 0.9%

Montpellier

FR

Montpellier

1 077 627

1.2%

39 358

0.6%

3.4%

Warsaw

PL

Warsaw

3 258 938

0.5%

106 260

0.4%

6.9%

Leipzig

DE

Leipzig-Halle

1 499 876

− 0.3%

66 238

1.0%

2.8%

Copenhagen

DK

Copenhagen

1 920 263

0.8%

59 974

0.4%

2.8%

Seattle, WA

US

Puget Sound Regiona

3 752 820

1.4%

208 106

0.4%

4.1%

Portland, OR

US

Portland Metroa

2 100 199

1.2%

114 877

0.2%

5.0%

  1. aFor the two US cases, urban area data refers to 2011 instead of 2012