ID32: Relational concepts in time and space: issues for planning theory and practice
Discussion of new relational concepts in urban and regional analysis and their implications for planning

ID50: European Union Spatial Policy and Planning
Comprehensive review of the development of policy at EU level with respect to spatial policy and spatial planning

ID52: Discoursive aspects of strategic planning: a deconstruction of the 'balanced competitiveness' concept in European Spatial Planning. The Revival of Strategic Spatial Planning. (Eds.) W Salet and A Faludi, pp. 267-280
Reviews the evolution of ideas about spatial planning and policy at the European scale. The discussion is general, but the angle of reference is Dutch. The review analyses the emerging discourse as it has evolved in the ESDP, especially in relation to ‘balanced competitiveness’, illustrated with maps produced to express it. Zonneveld concludes: ‘The ESDP does not give any clue about ways to look at the spatial structure of the European territory, partially the result of unresolved problens concerning the institutional status of spatial planning in the context of the EU Treaty. Yet there seem to be possibilities to conceptualise the European territory. First of all one has to recognise the spatial diversity of the European territory and the various roles countries and regions can play. The idea that it is possible to conceptualise the spatial structure of Europe by means of one or even a handful of spatial images is illusory. A whole range of concepts and maps have to be developed regarding different themes at various scales’ (pp 279-280)

ID60: Europe 2000+: cooperation for European territorial development
Discussion (to 1994) of factors affecting territorial organisaiton in Europe; developments in specific areas; systems of spatial planning and public transfers in member states; transnational study areas (Centre Capitals, etc.); trends 1991-1994

ID67: Spatial planning policies in a European context
Brief overview (with maps) of EU concerns on environment, transport and possible future enlargement, and brief textual discussion of the requirements of a future European spatial planning policy

ID88: The relationship between Planning and the UK Structural Funds
This report examines the relationship between planning and the Structural Funds at national and regional planning policy level. It aims to assess the impact of the funds on the planning system and compare the procedures and mechanisms for preparing and implementingg planning policies with those for structural funds.

ID94: Towards a New Role for Spatial Planning
Proceedings of OECD meetings, in 1999 to 2000. A series of review papers from various parts of the world on developments in spatial planning, useful papers on the operationalisation of sustainability concepts in a spatial planning perspective (by Nadin), the Austrian spatial planning system, a way of distinguishing project plans from strategic plans (by Faludi) and approaches to articulating spatial development framewords (by Healey)

ID163: NORDREGIO (A Nordic Centre for Spatial Development)
This website contains information on Nordregio and its related work (e.g., research projects, publication list, courses offered). Nordregio is a Nordic research institute for spatial planning. This website also contains sections on EIA Network, ESDP (and SPESP) and its journal (I.e. Journal of Nordregio)

ID168: Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung - BBR)
This site provides information on the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), Germany - the only institution in the country which unites the aspects of spatial planning, building technology and housing at federal level. Also functions as the contact institution for corresponding authorities in the international context. Contains a broad range of issues, including demonstration projects in urban development and spatial planning, research projects (e.g., Vision Planet) and scientific publications in the field of spatial planning, urban development and housing

ID242: Regional Planning and Development in Europe
A collection of papers focusing on the operations of the structural funds and regional restructuring; the relations between spatial planning, environmental management and regional development. Contains cases from Greece, Italy, Spain, Scotland, Ireland, England. Includes a paper on the role of the ESDP and other European spatial planning measures on European 'coherence' and cohesion.

ID307: Enlargement and integration in the European Union
Discusses and evaluates the enlargement process - present goals, how they are affected by the possibility of enlargement, the dynamics of integration processes, impacts on EU's internal and external policies (including the EC regional policy), its institutional structure and decision-making process. Also includes discussion on the traditional 'community method' of expansion - its advantages and shortcomings

ID357: Europe 2000: Outlook for the Development of the Community's Territory
Reviews developments in the spatial development of the European Community's territory, with an emphasis on economic distribution, demography, infrastructure and spatial coherence, the future of urban areas, rural areas, border areas, coastal areas and islands, and the significance of co-operation between cities and regions.

ID405: Urban Pilot Projects Annual Report 1996
A summary of progress and lessons from the Urban Pilot Projects during the period 1900-1996

ID549: Nordic Echoes of European Spatial Planning: Discursive Integration in Practice
This study examines the development of the policy discourse of European spatial planning as it has been evolving in Nordic countries. Using concepts of policy communities and policy networks, it argues that the successful develpoment of the European spatial planning discourse in Nordic countries is linked to the pre-existence of strong policy communities in this field. It includes detailed accounts of the development of the spatial planning discourse in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

ID576: Politica urbana e dinamica ei sistemi territoriali: attori e strategie nell'Europa degli anni novanta
A review of developments in the 1990s in urban and territorial policy, focusing in particular on the impact of EU policies, and particularly the ESDP, the structural funds and Urban Pilot Projects. Includes a wide range of examples from across Europe. Includes material on the Italian territorial pacts In Italian

ID582: The Emerging 'Urban Agenda' and the European Spatial Development Perspective: Towards an EU Urban Policy?
This paper reviews the prospects of an EU urban agenda emerging, which would give significant attention to unemployment and social exclusion issues. It covers EU Urban initiatives and the ESDP, but is doubtful about the prospects for an EU urban policy emerging.

ID590: Application of the European Spatial Development Perspective (Special issue of Town Planning Review)
This is acollection of papers reporting different experiences of the way ESPD is being applied in dirfferent countries and in the INTERREG Programme. Faludi supplies introductory and concluding papers. Boehme reviesws the situation in Nordic countries; Shaw and Sykes examine the application of ESPD to regional planning in the UK; Rivolin reviews the Italian experience; Liebenath and Pallagst review the expression of environmental policies in ESPD and INTERREG, and the impact in the german context; Kidd, Massey and Davies examine the relation of the ESPD to integrated coastal zone management.

ID598: Facing ESPON
This collection of papers reviews issues which are being addressed in the ESPON 2006 Programme. It draws on the experience of INTERREG and considers the challenge of the applicaton of the ESDP. It includes experiences from the NorthWest Europe INTERREG, from Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

ID623: EU 6th Urban Environment Action Framework - 1.Thematic Strategy and 2. Background/Consultation Paper
The background paper is part of the EU Sixth Environment Action Programme. It requires the development of a Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment which is to be developed in consultation with the relevant parties such as NGOs, business, public authorities and other partners. This particular part of the consultation process is directed at the academic community in the EU and Candidate Countries. The findings of the consultation exercise will be discussed at a stakeholder consultation exercise (a 'stakeholder platform') to be held in Brussels in June or September 2003. Rob.Atkinson@uwe.ac.uk is the co-ordinator for the academic consultation. The background paper is available in french, English and German. The objective of the exercise is to collect representative views from the academic sector across Europe engaged in the subject matter of the thematic strategy (sustainable urban environment). These views will be used to inform the development of the thematic strategy. It is expected that a Communication will emerge from the Commission by the end of the year that will initiate a wider consultation process. This, therefore, is an opportunity to have an in-put into the process that will shape the Communication and its contents. Ultimately, it is expected that the Communication will lead to a co-decision on the Urban Environment by the Council and the European Parliament sometime in 2005. In essence, with reference to the four areas identified in the background paper relating to the Urban Environment (Sustainable Urban Transport; Sustainable Urban Management; Sustainable Construction; Sustainable Urban Design), the Commission is interested in the following questions: • What is 'best practice' • Why isn't every urban area using best practice techniques • What can be done to overcome these problems • What can Europe do to overcome these problems The European Commission will consider these suggestions carefully in developing the thematic strategy for the urban environment. An interim document (a Commission Communication "Towards a Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment") will be issued for comments by the end of 2003. The Thematic Strategy will be presented to the Council and the European Parliament in 2005. For further information on the European Commission's work on the urban environment including the Thematic Strategy on the urban environment, see the website

ID641: Democracy paradoxes in multi-level governance: theorising on structural fund system research
Using models of democracy, this paper assesses the EU structural fund system.

ID643: Partnership with the cities: the URBAN Community Initiative
This report provides an uptodate review of the URBAN Initiative with some examples of projects.

ID650: Second Progress Report on economic and social cohesion Jan2003
Available in all EU languages and ten languages of the enlargement countries.Follow up report to Council on the preparation of its proposals for continuation of cohesion policy after 2006. It updates the data concerning regional economic and social disparities, describes the state of the debate on the future of cohesion policy and outlines the results of the accession negotiations with the ten future Member States. Updates the data concerning regional GDP for 2000 and employment and the rate of joblessness in 2001.Regional data for the GDP of those not scheduled to join the Union before 2006 (Romania and Bulgaria) are included in the report but have not been taken into account.

ID652: The Danube Space Study (July 2000) Regional and territorial aspects of development in the Danube countries with respect to impacts on the European Union
The Danube Space Study sets out to reveal the regional structures and the spatially differentiated patterns of development in this area.The main objective is to provide guidance for co-operation at the regional, cross-border and transnational level.It has produced comprehensive material on the different regional economies, environment and the demographic situation, as well as on the infrastructure of the Danube Space (excludes Serbia) Compilation and analysis is organised along two major lines: transnational reviews of five topics (demography, economics, transport, environment, energy, and in-depth analyses of the Accession States within the core area.

ID653: Towards a thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste COM 2003 (301)
This is a first contribution to the development of a thematic strategy withn the 6th Environment Action Programme that covers both waste prevention and recycling. It includes an assessment of Community waste policy focusing on minimising the environmental impacts of waste whilst taking into account economic and social considerations.The objective of this Communication is to launch a process of consultation of the Community institutions and of waste management stakeholders to contribute to the development of a comprehensive and consistent policy on waste prevention and recycling.

ID655: Environment 2010 : our future, our choice
The 6th Environment Action Programme of the European Community. Identifies 4 priority areas: Climate change; Nature and biodiversity;,Environment, health and quality of life; and natural resources and waste. Also 7 themes: Clean air (CAFÉ); soil protection; Sustainable use of pesticides; Marine environmeny; Waste prevention and recycling; Sustainable resources; Urban environment

ID656: Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe
This paper compares the experience of strategic spatial planning in Hannover, Germany, Flanders in Belgium and in Northern Ireland. Each case is decsribed in terms of context and motivations, policy approaches and concepts, institutional arenas, impacts and outcomes.

ID701: Special issue: Environmental planning:
From the 1970s public environmental awareness has grown in the face of damage to water, soil and air. Currently there is a differentiated set of governance tools for implementing environmental policy objectives. Environmental planning expresses itself as the interrelationship of different planning sectors with the spatial assessment and spatial development policies at all levels. In this special issue are collected contributions from different angles about various aspects of the topic.

ID705: Discursive European Integration. The case of Nordic spatial planning
Discusses the influences of the emerging European spatial development policy agenda on policies in 5 Nordic countries and explores the influence of the ESDP on spatial planning in terms of European integration and network governance. Focuses on how these influences are exerted and the results on planning and regional policy at the national level. Links between European and national policy communities are helping to transform European guidelines into national policies - a form of discursive European integration. Finally, the paper discusses whether the present form of European spatial development policy will lead to a harmonisation of planning and planning systems in Europe.

ID714: The European Journal on Spatial Development
Online journal of accredited papers

ID715: Discovering the Loci of European Integration
Looks at the contribution of planning to European governance in the cases of Structural fund programmes, trans-european networks, Natura 2000 and agri-environmental measures.In depth analysis of four cases of European spatial policy-making in different EU member states (the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and France). It examines the intricacies of European policy-making as developed over the past decade, in which not only EU institutions are involved but also national, regional and local governments and a variety of private parties and social organisations. In the end, the question this book seeks to answer is how planning contributes to European governance.

ID761: ESPON Project 1.1.2 URBAN-RURAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE (2002-04)
The future of numerous rural areas is increasingly functionally interlinked with urban development as is obvious in the densely populated areas (eg peri-urban zones) undergoing considerable urbanisation pressure. It is also relevant for more sparsely populated rural areas, under less visible urban influence. What is the future perspective for urban- rural relationships and the system of mutual exchange, where cities provide services, cultural activities, infrastructures and the major access to the labour market, while rural areas, still producing agricultural products, provide leisure potential and green spaces (amenities)? Will the viability of the rural areas depend increasingly on their proximity and their degree of exchange with urban areas? How can co-operation and partnerships support a sustainable development of rural areas? The project shall further explore relations between urban and rural areas in terms of exchange processes, institutional links and interdependencies. These relations are of special interest on the background of the diverse structure of the EU territory and the neighbouring countries. They have developed substantially but differently within Europe in accordance to the diversity of spatial contexts.

ID775: ESPON project 2.2.2 Territorial Effects of the "Aquis Communitaire", Pre-accession Aid and PHARE/TACIS/MEDA Programmes
The 6th Periodic Report and 2nd Cohesion Report provide a broad understanding of economic development. Structural Funds are already subject to evaluations on horizontal themes such as environmental effects or gender questions. The time is due to subject Structural Funds to a territorial impact assessment or analysis (TIA), with consideration of the efforts already made by the UK delegation of the CSD in researching the scope of TIA as a valuable tool for assessing the impact of spatial development against spatial policy objectives or prospects for an area during 2000-01. As a first step the method for such an assessment needs to be set up on the base of the experience of Structural Funds evaluation and the evaluations already done. The Cohesions report already approached in some respect the Structural Funds from a broader territorial point of view. In parallel to the activities around the Structural Funds, the developed methodology could also be applied to undertake a territorial assessment of the pre-accession aid and the Phare/Tacis/Meda programmes in order to develop comparable results for the enlarged Union and its neighbours.

ID783: Implementation of EU regional assistance programmes in Moravia-Silesia and Upper Silesia
Case study

ID784: Regional Governance in Industrial regions in Eastern and Central Europe
Case Study of Moravia-Silesia to evaluate the changing roles of regional economic restructuring in heavy industrial areas in Central and Eastern Europe. Its aim is to test the hypothesis, that processes of regionalisation are creating new institutional relationships and that these developments are having an impact on the formulation and implementation of94regional programmes. The context is the ‘rediscovery’ of the region.and the profound changes in the structure and systems of governance throughout Europe. The phrase ‘governance’ indicates a shift from the hierarchical mode of organisation to heterarchic self-organisation where the regional level plays a key role in leading and coordinating an integrated response to economic development changes

ID800: Trans-national Nordic-Scottish Co-operation. Lessons for Policy and Practice
Trans-national and inter-regional co-operation between the Nordic Countries and Scotland has been an active policy area for almost a decade. With the growing interest in trans-national co-operation in an increasingly integrated EU, it is timely to reflect on the experiences of recent co-operation programmes. By looking at project co-operation carried out under the Article 10 programme Northern Periphery and the Interreg IIC North Sea Programme, this study provides insights into the lessons learned by regions and other partners in trans-national and inter-regional co-operation projects in the field of spatial planning and regional development. This study is not to be understood as an evaluation of the programmes or projects discussed, but as a thematic study focusing on the learning aspect in trans-national cooperation. This study reflects on the process of learning which is integral to effective cooperation, in order to investigate the nature of the tacit knowledge and experience of project participants, and to make it usable for future co-operation projects and policy making.

ID801: Discovering the Locus of European Integration
The book investigates how planning is applied in a variety of ways to identify and address spatial aspects in the context of European integration. The question this book seeks to answer is how planning contributes to European governance

ID803: Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity
The book looks at politics, power, mobility and flows and future visions of Europe's physical space in the EU It builds a critical narrative of the emergence of a new discourse of Europe as 'monotopia' which implies a very real project to shape Europe in line with the visions of high speed , frictionless mobility, the transgression of borders and network cities. At stake are ideas about mobility and friction, about relations between core and peripheral regions, and about the future Europe's cities and countryside. Explores the debate surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development and sustainability.The authors also discuss identity and explore how the thoughts of future European citizens, politicians and policymakers will be inflenced by the sorts of policy ideas analysed.

ID804: Structure Plan appraisal and the SEA Directive
Structure Plan appraisal reports provide insights into the practices of English county councils. The methodological requirements of the European SEA Directive,soon to apply to Structure Plans, provide a context for discussing the results The perspectives of relevant experts concerning good practice appraisal techniques are used as a further benchmark The results suggest that the process quality of Appraisals falls short of meeting the methodological requirements of the Directive, and of experts' perspectives of good practice. Several reasons are proposed to explain this, centring on the political nature of decision making . Although based around an examination of Structure Plan appraisal reports, the results provide insights relevant to the appraisal of strategic planning documents more generally.

ID816: Planning in a Global Era
Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel have all contributed to the establishment of a 'network society' that encompasses the globe. Such arguments clearly have a significance on planning - an activity which has been concerned with controlling and shaping the use of space. This volume brings together contributions from across the world in order to address some of the questions that arise from such global changes.

ID834: Is there Life beyond the Knowledge Based-Society? Towards a decelerated approach to learning, creativity and enjoyment in Europe
Learning and Knowledge-Based Society (KBS) is promoted as the new model for socio-economic development in Europe. The paper examines the features, and provides a critique, of KBS as presented by the EC where it is based on scientific and political ideas. There is an overview of the meaning of knowledge and knowledge producing communities, communication and culture, and views of innovation within various social science disciplines and suggests a broader conception. It closes with a plea to reduce the knowledge focus of development in Europe, and concentrate more on values like creativity, solidarity and enjoyment.

ID857: Spatial development policy in the European Constitutional Treaty
As the implementation of the European single market has continued, it has been become increasingly clear that a more closely integrated Europe cannot be simply have an exclusively economic dimension. For a harmonious overall development, a large number of other policy areas clearly have to be included. One of these is spatial policy (spatial development policy), which aims to contribute to a more balanced spatial development. In the view of the ARL, the time has now come to initiate the institutional steps which have thus far emerged from the Europe-wide debate. The "territorial cohesion" of the Union cannot be achieved until we have clear legal foundations and definitions, which must also apply to spatial development policy in Europe. For that reason, the constitutional aspects of a European spatial developmet policy must form part of the agenda of the European Constitutional Convention.

ID859: Spatial Implications of the European Monetary Union
With the beginning of the year 1999, a further important step towards deeper integration of Europe took place: The European Monetary Union was put into force. Undoubtedly, this has, beside other effects, also considerable effects on the conomic geography of the integrating area. Possible and probable spatial effects of EMU was the motive to establish an international working group within the ARL-DATAR cooperation agreement in order to shed some light on these effects. The present volume consists of papers developed by members of the working group.

ID861: Policy Vision for Sustainable Rural Economies in an Enlarged Europe
Implemented by a joint initiative of ARL and DATAR an international group of experts elaborated the Vision encompassing the shift from a sectoral, pure agricultural policy of today, to a territorial policy for rural regions to be implemented over a 25 year time horizon. This policy constitutes a desired vision for Europe's rural areas which requires: (1) appropriate institutions, (2) diversifying the economic activities in rural areas, and (3) integrating agricultural and rural policy.

ID869: Deutsch-Österreichisches Handbuch der Planungsbegriffe
In the series of handbooks of planning terminology this volume focuses on the border region of Austria and Germany, once again contributing to promotion of mutual understanding of the political, legal, socio-cultural and economic backgrounds of the respective partners. This is particularly important in the field of spatial planning, which varies considerably from state to state with regard to the underlying legal framework, the way this function is organised and the terminology employed. After setting out the systems of government and administration and the planning systems of the two countries concerned, the explanations of planning terminology are illustrated by reference to select examples drawn from programmes ans plans representing the various tiers of planning in Austria and in Germany.

ID871: Deutsch-Schwedisches Handbuch der Planungsbegriffe / Tysk-svensk handbok för planeringsbegrepp
The German-Swedish Handbook of Planning Terminology in the series on "Planning Terminology in Europe" initiated and published by the ARL and its numerous partner organisations in the participating countries. These handbooks contribute to promoting mutual understanding of how spatial planning is organised in the respective partner country and to supporting the ever-increasing tendency towards cross-border and transnational co-operation at all levels within Europe.The glossary, which includes explanations of key planning terminology, is preceded by inroductory chapters on the respective systems of state and public governance in place in Germany and Sweden.Diagrams are included to illustrate the various tiers of planning.

ID872: Deutsch-Polnisches Handbuch der Planungsbegriffe / Polsko-Niemiecki Leksykon Pojec Planistycznych
The now substantially revised German-Polish Handbook of Planning Terminology adds one further title to the series on "Planning Terminology in Europe" initiated and published by the ARL in collaboration with its numerous partner organisations in the participating countries. These handbooks make a major contribution to promoting mutual understanding of how spatial planning is organised in the respective partner country and to supporting cross-border and transnational co-operation within Europe, a tendency which is constantly gaining in importance at all levels against the background of EU enlargement and of intensive co-operation in the Baltic Sea region involving states of both Central and Eastern Europe. The glossary, which includes explanations of key planning terminology, is preceded by introductory chapters on the system of state and of public governance in place in Germany and Poland. A comparative overview of the two planning systems is provided to make it easier to compare the two countries. For the sake of greater clarity, diagrams are included illustrating the various tiers of planning.

ID873: Deutsch-Slowakisch-Tschechisches Handbuch der Planungsbegriffe / Slovensko-cesko-nemecka pirucka uzemno planovacej terminologie / Cesko-nemecko-slovenska pirucka uzemne planovaci terminologie
The Slowak-Czech-German Handbook of Planning terminology adds one further title to the series on "Planning Terminology in Europe" initiated and published by the ARL in collaboration with its numerous partner organisations in the participating countries. These handbooks make a major contribution to promoting mutual understanding of how spatial planning is organised in the respective partner countries and to supporting cross-border and transnational co-operation within Europe, a tendency which is constantly gaining in importance at all levels against the background of EU enlargement. The glossary, which includes explanations of key planning terminology, is preceded by introductory chapters on the systems of state and of public governance in place in Germany, Slowakia and Czechia. For the sake of greater clarity, diagrams are included illustrating the various tiers of planning.

ID875: Regional and transnational spatial planning: problems today, perspectives for the future
Presents some results of the EURBANET project, 2000-2001dealing with European urban networks within INTERREG IIC in the North-western Metropolitan Area (NWMA) which explores the role of polynucleated urban regions in the reinforcement of the competitive strength and quality of life in the NWMA, as a contribution to transnational spatial planning there. Four polynuclear urban regions are studied. One conclusion is that it is necessary to move between scales: from the EU to national spatial policies (and vice versa), between national policies and regional spatial policies and between regional and urban spatial policies. At each scale, speci?c demands for spatial planning policies in polynuclear urban regions are increasingly relevant.It presents an analysis of how polycentricity has become central to recent discussions on European and north-west European spatial and economic planning and launches a spatial network approach to integrate spatial policies.This perspective contrasts strongly with the current practice of spatial planning on the level of urban networks and transnational governance.

ID880: The European spatial development perspective and North-West Europe: application and the future
The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is the product of a NW European planning tradition.This article discusses the role of NW European concerns, in particular the use of the concept of polycentricity, in the making of the ESDP, and the application of the ESDP in the North-west European Metropolitan Area (NWMA), particularly in Germany, the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium.The article also explores the future of spatial planning in NW Europe. Much depends on how Community policy adapts to enlargement in the EU. However, it seems certain that existing member states, in particular those in north-west Europe will see their share in the structural funds evaporate.This may give added significance to INTERREG IIIB and to the successor of this Community Initiative. In addition, concepts like territorial cohesion and territorial management may become functional equivalents to that of spatial planning, for which the Community is seen to have no competence.

ID885: Young People in Rural Areas of Europe
Based on a two-year European research project on policies and young people in rural development, this edited volume examines these issues and compares young people's experiences of rural life in the UK, Ireland, Finland, France, Germany, Austria and Portugal. It reviews relevant policies and highlights not only the pressures on young people in rural areas but also what might be done to address these issues. It is organized thematically with each chapter addressing a specific topic in one or more countries.

ID888: Territorial cohesion: old (French) wine in new bottles?
If accepted, the concept of territorial cohesion could mean a formal planning role for the EU. The paper traces the French roots of the concept which is subject to multiple interpretations. The initial focus is on regional economic development as such but now, territorial cohesion also means (as in the White Paper on European Governance) co-ordination of policies with an impact on one and the same territory. Originally adhering to a more interventionist approach to spatial planning, the French have leaned to factor balanced and sustainable development, concerns of the so-called comprehensive integrated approach. Germans are seeing sense in the new French focus on 'services of general economic interest' Experts from both agree on the need for a spatial framework for Community policies to partly mirror the European Spatial Development Perspective but as part of territorial cohesion policy as a shared responsibility of the Union and members, thus vindicating the ideas of the French pioneers of European spatial planning.

ID890: Power and Gender in European Rural Development
New public and private actors, emphasizing issues such as landscape, nature, environment and food safety, are challenging EU rural development policies.This book exaxmines this framework in particular the impacts of interactions between established interests and newcomers in local power relations. Specific attention is given to the their gendered nature.Case studies analyze local rural power relations and give overviews of the significance of rural gender relations.The book argues that traditional and new forms of social organization in rural areas create new forms of political participation. Changing forms of social capital and political participation not only influence the relation between state and civil society, but also male-female relationships. The book argues that the dynamics of these gendered power relations produce competing discourses, which can often hinder policy making and implementation

ID894: The open method of coordination and policy mainstreaming: the European employment strategy and regional conversion programmes in the UK
This paper is a critical exploration of issues raised by the attempt to integrate aims and concerns derived from one EU policy domain into another.This is via an examination of the ways in which the European Employment Strategy (EES) has been taken into account in the design and initial implementation of Structural Fund programmes in 2000-2006 round. In particular, it examines the UK mapping out vertical and horizontal linkages between European, national and regional levels,and assessing the extent to which strategic frameworks, programme guidance and programme content have successfully integrated EESfactors. The article ends by identifying some implications for theories of European governance.

ID910: Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (3rd edition)
This book is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.It is revised to take account ofnew literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

ID918: The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning
This book gives an international range of case studies that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban and regional planning, and looks at the prospects for using virtual worlds for modelling spatial environments and their application in planning. It explores the challenges for planning in the real world, caused by the dynamics of socio-spatial systems and by the contradictions of the evolutionary trends wthin their spatial layout. The second presents concepts to help model, analyze, visualize, monitor and control socio-spatial systems by using virtual worlds.Theoretical topics include modelling spatial systems such as Petri nets,cellular automata,dynamical systems.

ID922: ESPON Project 2.2.1 TERRITORIAL EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL FUNDS (2002-05)
Structural Funds have been evaluated on horizontal themes such as environmental effects or gender questions. This study use a territorial impact assessment (TIA), with consideration of the efforts already made by the UK delegation of the CSD in researching the scope of TIA as a valuable tool for assessing the impact of spatial development against spatial policy objectives or prospects for an area or a larger territory. As a first step the method for such an assessment is set up on the base of the experience of Structural Funds evaluation and the evaluations already done. The 2nd Cohesion report already approached Structural Funds from a broader territorial point of view.In parallel to these activities, the developed methodology aims to be applicable to territorial assessments of an enlarged European territory, including effects of pre-accession aid and the Phare/Tacis/Meda programmes, providing comparable results for the enlarged Union and its neighbours. This will be done in an upcoming project 2.2.2, which starts when the first results has been delivered from this project.

ID924: A new partnership for cohesion : convergence competitiveness cooperation. Third report on economic and social cohesion
The 3rd report set outs the European Commission's vision for future of European policy to reduce disparities and promote greater economic, social and territorial cohesion. Its preparation involved consultations at European, national, regional and local level to ensure response to the needs and legitimate expectations of Europe's citizens. It gives statistical (graphs, maps, tables, regional indicators) details.

ID964: European Spatial Planning
This volume discusses transnational planning in Europe; its history, current position and its future.The main focus of the book is the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), a planning document based on voluntary cooperation of the member states of the EU Contains 21 maps illustrating the concepts discussed and the evolution of thinking about Europe’s spatial organization

ID976: Linking Discourse and Space: towards a cultuiral sociology of space in analysing spatial policy discourses
Explores how spatialities are constructed in spatial policy discourses and how these processes could be conceptualised/analysed. It focuses on a theoretical/analytical framework using the relation between rationality and power and discourse analytics and cultural theoretical approaches to describe a cultural sociology of space. It explores the relations between language, space and power using examples from European spatial policy and shows how the new spatial policy discourse creates the conditions for a new set of spatial practices at the same time as it creates a new system of meaning about that space, based on the language and ideas of polycentricity and hypermobility.

ID988: Strategic spatial planning and the longer range
This article discusses the nature of strategic spatial planning, as exemplified in the planning literature and with global examples. It argues that too much attention in planning practices has been given to the producing strategic plans and too little to locally-based studies of the dynamics of urban socio-spatial development. It highlights some recent European experiences in strategic spatial planning.

ID989: The Treatment of Space and Place in the New Strategic Spatial Planning in Europe
This article examines recent European experiences in urban and regional spatial strategies, focusing specifically on the concepts of space and place used within them and the institutional work asked of these concepts. Using The Netherlands Fifth National Policy Document on Spatial Planning, the Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland, and the Framework Document for Milan, the analysis highlights the political dimensions of developing new spatial vocabularies to guide urban and regional development and the significance of the institutional context in shaping and accepting new spatial planning concepts

ID990: Illustrating spatial policies in Europe
The visualisation of spatial policy options through maps can be very powerful both in the planning process and in communicating the key messages of planning strategies. However, experience from the 'European Spatial Development Perspective' (ESDP) shows that visualisation can also be the most difficult aspect in transnational spatial planning processes. The paper suggests possible reasons for the difficulties on reaching agreement on the form and content of planning policy maps at EU and transnational levels.

ID996: The form, style, and use of cartographic visualisations in European spatial planning: examples from England and Germany
In spatial planning, planning policy documents use symbols - icons, diagrams, and maps - but national and regional differences can cause problems when several countries join to discuss policy options for a transnational territory eg European Spatial Development Perspective.This paper reports findings from an analysis of cartographic visualisations in strategic spatial planning documents in England and Germany.These show that, although the function of plans ultimately determines the form of visualisations, traditional, 'scientific' styles dominate planning at regional level, and 'artistic' styles of visualisation are limited. The paper then discusses the relevanceto transnational spatial policy processes.

ID1025: Problem areas in Poland in terms of the objectives of the European Union's regional policy
The article focuses on problem areas in EU member states and Poland, identified using criteria within EU regional policy. The analysis compares the spatial distributions of the problem areas and assesses the relevance of the statistical criteria employed.The article also outlines the new model of regional policy to be implemented in Poland in the transition period with the European Union.

ID1027: Expansive spatial planning: the new European transnational spatial visions
The European Spatial Development Perspective, in spite of having an informal, non-binding status, is creeping into the regulatory frameworks of the European Union.This paper looks at spatial visions for three transnational areas: 1) the Central European, Adriatic, Danubian and South Eastern European Space, CADSES (VISION PLANET); 2) the North Sea Region (NorVision); 3) North-West Europe (NEW Spatial Vision). The analysis uses a common format, and lforms some conclusions about the principles on which such visions can be grounded and the structure of the processes to be followed

ID1053: On the road to a European spatial planning system?
Overview of the history of and guide to ESDP and ESPON, looking ahead to ways forward in the future via territorial cohesion and a potential European constitution. With useful links. Available in French and English

ID1064: ESPON Project 3.4.1 EUROPE IN THE WORLD (2004-06)
This project analyses the trends, goals and strategies of European spatial development from a more global view and covers three aspects. The first relates to flows, the identification of relations and linkages between Europe and other parts of the world ()eg transport). The second deals with territorial structures and comparisons with comparable regions elsewhere. Finally, the third is concerned with the embedding of Europe into the geographical neighbourhood.

ID1065: ESPON Project 2.1.5 TERRITORIAL IMPACTS OF EUROPEAN FISHERIES POLICY (2004-06)
Key questions for the project are:the effect of ongoing policy processes on European countries and regions; the territorial impacts on Europe given the aim of cohesion, territorial balanced, sustainable development and polycentrism; how new economic dynamics would influence the diversity of types of coastal regions; effects of fisheries policies on spatial development in coastal regions, a polycentric development at local/regional level; the role of accessibility in developing new activities in the fishing industry in different regions; the impacts of fisheries policies in different types of coastal regions in relation to the concept of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)

ID1066: ESPON Project 1.3.3 IMPACTS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND IDENTITY
This project aims to analyse European cultural heritage and identity looking at where is it found; the effects and impacts of cultural factors have on spatial development and to examine we can use, manage and protect cultural assets in order to support a balanced, polycentric and economic sustainable European development.

ID1085: Joint report Social security and social inclusion
Member States aim to co-ordinate policies for combating poverty and social exclusion on the basis of an open method of co-ordination combining common objectives, national action plans, common indicators with the aim of promoting more ambitious and effective policy strategies for social inclusion.Now Member States have prepared a second generation of National Action Plans against poverty and social exclusion (NAPs Inclusion) Part 2 covers each member state. Includes tables and a statistical apendix

ID1138: Discoursive aspects of strategic planning: a deconstruction of the 'balanced competitiveness' concept in European Spatial Planning. The Revival of Strategic Spatial Planning. (Eds.) W Salet and A Faludi, pp. 267-280
Reviews the evolution of ideas about spatial planning and policy at the European scale. The discussion is general, but the angle of reference is Dutch. The review analyses the emerging discourse as it has evolved in the ESDP, especially in relation to ‘balanced competitiveness’, illustrated with maps produced to express it. Zonneveld concludes: ‘The ESDP does not give any clue about ways to look at the spatial structure of the European territory, partially the result of unresolved problens concerning the institutional status of spatial planning in the context of the EU Treaty. Yet there seem to be possibilities to conceptualise the European territory. First of all one has to recognise the spatial diversity of the European territory and the various roles countries and regions can play. The idea that it is possible to conceptualise the spatial structure of Europe by means of one or even a handful of spatial images is illusory. A whole range of concepts and maps have to be developed regarding different themes at various scales’ (pp 279-280)

ID1181: Guiding Principles for Sustainable Spatial Development of the European Continent
Structure of the guding principles available to download. Available in English,French, Slovenian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian

ID1183: Strategies for the Stateless Nation: Sustainable Policies for the Regions in Europe.
Explores the dimensions of regional planning in Europe and gives details on the rise of regional Europe; also reviews the strategies used by the regions and stateless nations in relation to regional planning

ID1184: European Spatial planning and the Environment: planning for sustainable development
Examines the possibilities in European spatial planning to enable sustainable development

ID1254: Space Odysseys: Spatiality and Social Relations in the 21st century
Debates new ideas around mobility and complexity, flows and networks, embodiment and performance, extending to accounts about the (re)production of new and existing forms of immobility, emergent identities, new boundaries and their transgression. Notions of ‘spaces of flows’are contrasted with spaces of places, and other spatial contexts and concepts.

ID1295: The Polycenric Metropolis - Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe
This book introduces the concept of the networked polycentric mega-city region. characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. It analyses eight regions in North West Europe using maps and case study data. It shows how businesses interrelate and communicate in geographical space - within and between each region, and with the wider world and demonstrates the consequences for spatial planning and regional development in Europe examining the issues surrounding regional identities, and discussing policy ramifications and outcomes for infrastructure, transport systems and regulation.

ID1314: EU Community Research and Development Service
EU Community research and development information service. Covers all reseasrch projects. Publishes the reports and associated data

ID1315: SINGOCOM (Framework V Project)Social Innovation, Governance and Community Building
Territorial Innovation Models (TIM) emerged from the debate on regional and local innovation,with strong impact on socio-economic geographyand are now under critical evaluation. Seen as having an economist bias and atechnologist view of innovation.These TIM are now being confronted by with a ‘new’ type of integrated area development (IAD) and social economy initiatives at the local level. Attempts to formulate proposals for alternative Alternative models Models for local Local innovative Innovative development Development (ALMOLIN)..

ID1470: Natural Hazards and Spatial Planning in Europe
This book is about spatial planning approaches to natural hazards in selected Member States of the European Union. It is the outcome of a collaborative study by the editors and the authors, which was carried out as a part of the research project “Applied Multi-Risk Mapping of Natural Hazards for Impact Assessment” (ARMONIA). This project is supported by the 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP 6). The overall aim of ARMONIA is to provide the European Commission with a set of harmonised methodologies for producing integrated risk maps that can be used to achieve more informed and effective spatial planning procedures in areas prone to natural disasters in Europe. As comparative planning studies in the area of natural hazards have not yet been covered by scientific literature, this publication compiles the state-of-the-art of approaches and practice of dealing with natural hazards in spatial planning.

Andreas Faludi