A Europe of city-states

not all urban areas are growing at the same speed or are growing at all. All of Italy's and Greece's urban centres are losing inhabitants, as are the Ruhr and Katowice, Ostrava and Bucharest. Biggest winners? Istanbul and Ankara, plus two other Turkish cities, and Brussels and Amsterdam all gaining more than 2 percent p.a. Growing more modestly, at 1 percent, are the English and Scandinavian cities