Stefanie Dühr is Assistant Professor at the Radboud University, Department of Spatial Planning in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Between 1998 and 2005, Stefanie worked at the University of the West of England, Bristol, on research projects on European territorial cooperation and planning systems in Europe, and completed her PhD research on the use of cartographic representations in planning. Prior to this, she worked on a placement in the European Commission, DG Regio, where she was involved in the work on the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP).