metropolitaal
Metropolitaal is a Dutch term used in urban planning and policy discourse to describe issues, relationships, and governance at the scale of a metropolitan area. The adjective is formed from metropole or metropolis and the Dutch suffix -aal, yielding a label for policies, strategies, or institutions that operate beyond municipal boundaries but within a single metropolitan region.
In practice, metropolitaal configurations focus on cross-border coordination: transport networks, housing supply, land use, economy, environment,
Governance concepts associated with metropolitaal describe cooperative or formal metropolitan arrangements that coordinate planning and investment
Contextually, in the Netherlands discussions about large urban regions such as the Randstad or areas around
See also: metropolis, metropolitan region, metropoolregio, regional planning.