The book to which I had the pleasure of contributing with a chapter, written together with Giancarlo Cotella on the basis of ESPON COMPASS research, has just received a positive review by Prof. Vincent Nadin in Regional Studies. He writes: “cohesion policy has only a modest territorial dimension and tenuous cross-fertilisation with spatial planning. Those who share my frustration with the weakness of spatial governance in Europe will find much to interest them in this book.” This is a spot on commentary and I reflects my own dissapointment with the gulf that exist between Cohesion Policy and spatial planning, despite the numerous potentials for cross-fertilisation and synergies between these two policy domains. These potentials were clearly flagged up in our ESPON project on that matter (see policy brief here).
You can read the review here. The book can be found here (first chapter is Open Access).
Marcin Dąbrowski 