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Figure 5.5
Suggestions for new metropolitan co-operation areas
Source: Mehlbye (2000: 759)
was on 'cartographic illustrations of selected transnational options' (spatial images)
(CEC, 2000a; Rase, 1998).
The study on spatial images aimed at exploring possible concepts for the
cartographic representation of spatial policy on an experimental basis, and 'to illus-
trate policy aims and options in a way that effectively communicates them to
viewers' (CEC, 2000a: III). Reflecting the controversies surrounding the work on
policy maps for the ESDP, the work on SPESP was expected to make progress on
a universal cartographic language:
Experiences from the ESDP-process so far show that the elaboration of
European maps of a strategic nature can not be undertaken within a short
