“…The underlying essay therefore reflects on territorial cohesion research (Campbell, 2005;Faludi, 2005aFaludi, , 2007ESPON, 2006) from the viewpoint or rather: lift-off point of European spatial planning (Williams, 1996;Faludi & Waterhout, 2002;Jensen & Richardson, 2003), thereby logically also adding to studies on Cohesion Policy (Petzold et al, 2015). The message of this essay stretches well beyond these spheres though.…”