Images of Europe Tell Their Own Story
Maps from "European Spatial Planning" edited by Andreas Faludi
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; (December 2002)

"[..] The gallery offers a selection of maps produced in and around the ESDP process and tells the story of European spatial planning through the backdrop, the problems and the challenges planers see and the ways they try to give shape to new policies."

 
Images of the EU
A Framework for Comparison
Source CEC 1999
Images of the EU
Representing the European Union Territory
Source CEC 1999
Images of the EU
Future EU Enlargements
Courtesy of CEC
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Conceptualizing the EU Territory: Evolution
Three Spatial Conceptualizations of Europe
Source RPD 1978
Conceptualizing the EU Territory: Evolution
The Blue Banana Indicating the (Core) Area with Most Cities with More than 200.000 Inhabitants
Source Brunet 1989
Conceptualizing the EU Territory: Evolution
The Bunch of Grapes Representing a Diversified View of the EU
Source Kunzmann et Wegenner 1991
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Dividing the EU into Transanational Areas
The Transnational Areas of the Europe 2000 Program 1990-1993
Source CEC 1991
Dividing the EU into Transanational Areas
Interreg II C Cooperation Areas
Courtesy of CEC
Dividing the EU into Transanational Areas
Transnational Pilot Actions: Cooperation Areas
Courtesy of CEC
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ESDP: Global Economic Integration Zones in The EU and the U.S.
The "20-40-50" Pentagon, Just One Global Economic Integration Zone in the EU
Source Schon 2000
ESDP: Global Economic Integration Zones in The EU and the U.S.
... Compared with Four Global Economic Integration Zones in the U.S.
Source Mehlbye 2000
The EU of the Future?
Possible Development of the New Global Economic Integration Zones
Source French Presidency 2002
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The EU of the Future?
Europe as a Collection of Transnational Cooperation Areas in Order to Achieve a Better Urban Balance
Source Read 2000
The EU of the Future?
An Invitation to Metropolitan Areas to Cooperate
Source Mehlbye 2000
Cooperation Areas Across EU Boundaries
Transnational Cooperation Areas with Partners Outside the EU
Courtesy of CEC
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Cooperation Areas Across EU Boundaries
Typology of Border Areas in Central Europe
Courtesy of CEC
Pioneering in Northwest Europe
Areas of Cross-Border and Transnational Cooperation in Northwest Europe
Source NWMA Spatial Vision Group 2000
Pioneering in Northwest Europe
Representing the North Sea Region
Source VWG 2000
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Pioneering in Northwest Europe
CCC Study: Policy Scenario
Source CEC 1996
Pioneering in Northwest Europe
Second Benelux Structural
Outline
Source UEB 1997
Pioneering in Northwest Europe
A Vision for Northwest Europe: Spatial Vision Diagram
Source NWMA Spatial Vision Group 2000
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