Preface - Introduction.- Preface - Introduction.- Refereed Section.- Status and Perspectives of Territorial Cohesion with Respect to European Spatial Development Policy (ESDP) - Normative and Governance Aspects.- Territorial Cohesion - Between Expectations, Disparities and Contradictions.- Regional Disparities - Reasons Enough to Run a Cohesion-Oriented Spatial Policy?.- Territorial Cohesion, Brain Drain and Digital Divide.- Environmental Protection needs good Administration: Ecological Applications of the New Legal Instrument "European Groupings of Territorial Co-operation (EGTC)".- Suburbanisation, Suburbia and "Zwischenstadt": Perspectives of Research and Policy.- Varying Costs of Living as Compensation for Regional Disparities in Germany.- Territorial Cohesion and Transboundary Governance: Insights from the Polish-German and the Czech-German Borders.- Short Reports.- Spatial Development Strategies in the Enlarged EU: ESPON Project 1.2.3 on Spatially Relevant Aspects of the Information Society.- IRS Participates in EU-funded Research Project "Governance for Sustainability".