Observation

Article by Jean Peyrony. Published in disP – The Planning Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025, pp. 53–62.

With this manifesto, which complements the ‘Cross-border deal’ of the Borders Forum, the MOT and its network call for a change in the way actors look at spaces crossed by a border as genuine ‘cross-border living areas’: territories linked by functional interdependence and a wealth of historical, cultural and interpersonal links, with an awareness of belonging to a common territory and a desire for cross-border territorial cohesion.