Territorial divisions in Europe

Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe

Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions

The web site provides the possibility to download and examine the most recent documents produced by finalised and ongoing ESPON projects. This basic report exists only in an electronic version.

SGPTD Secondary Growth Poles in Territorial Development in Europe : Performance , Policies and Prospects

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TiPSE The Territorial Dimension of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe

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Global cities, glocal states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe

This article examines the changing relationship between global cities and territorial states in contemporary Europe, and outlines some of its implications for the geography of world capitalism in the late twentieth century. Most accounts of global cities are based upon a ‘zero-sum’ conception of spatial scale that leads to an emphasis on the declining power of the territorial state: as the glob...