systems in Europe Various compendia of spatial planning systems can be found. Below is a table showing some of the main sources, the countries covered and the date of publication. European spatial planning In 1999, a document called the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) was signed by the ministers responsible for regional planning in the EU member states. Although the ESDP has no binding status, and the European Union has no formal authority for spatial planning, the ESDP has influenced spatial planning policy in European regions and member states, and placed the coordination of EU sectoral policies on the political agenda. At the European level, the term territorial cohesion is becoming more widely used and is for example mentioned in the draft EU Treaty (Constitution) as a shared competency of the European Union; it is also included in the Treaty of Lisbon. The term was defined in a "scoping document" in Rotterdam in late 2004 and is being elaborated further using empirical data from the ESPON programme in a document entitled "The Territorial State and Perspectives of the European Union". At the minister's conference in May 2007 in Leipzig, a political document called the "Territorial Agenda" was signed to continue the process begun in Rotterdam, revised in May 2011 in Gödöllő. See also Architecture Comprehensive planning European Spatial Development Perspective Geography ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners Landscape architecture Land use planning Location theory Permeability (spatial and transport planning) Principles of Intelligent Urbanism Regional planning Spatial Citizenship Territorial spatial planning Unified settlement planning Urban planning Urban sprawl References Andreas Faludi, Bas Waterhout, The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective, London Routledge 2002. . Gerhard Larsson, Spatial Planning Systems in Western Europe - An Overview, Delft Univ Press (2006), . Gerhard Larsson, Land management as Public Policy, University Press of America (2010), . UNECE, [http://www.unece.org/press/pr2008/08env_p04e.htm Spatial Planning - Key Instrument for Development and Effective Governance with Special Reference to Countries in Transition], Report ECE/HBP/146, Geneva UNECE 2008. Richard H. Williams, European union spatial policy and planning'', London Chapman 1996. . External links CEMAT - European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning EJSD - European Journal of Spatial Development ESPON - European Observation Network on Territorial Development and Cohesion Planum - The European Journal of Planning VASAB - Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea - Baltic Sea Region intergovernmental cooperation in spatial planning and development Spatial