ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the Marchlands in the New Europe. The return of the west is producing a spatial modernity of diverse experience in localities, regions and states. Looked at through the lens of Europe, new imaginings, perceptions and experiences, producing the Marchlands in the 1990s, come into perspective. The first part of the chapter discusses some competing and contrasting visions of Europe's future spatial development drawn up in the early 1990s, followed by a review of the main processes shaping change in practice. The second part provides an account of the perceived spatial reconstruction of the Marchlands into four, new, subcontinental places resulting from the operation of these processes on insider and outsider spatialities.
