The comment discusses the selections of “land” by 12 country case studies. Case studies that examine specific sites allow to take a closer look, but make it difficult to distinguish between typical and random aspects of a case. One of the perplexing aspects of land policy are the diverse meanings of land. Possible meanings include land as an economic good with an exchange value, land as an environmental resource with an existence value, land as a functionality with a use value, or land as a source of spatial power with a territorial value. In the 12 chapters, a recurring theme on land is the re-use of brownfields or the “densification” of land that in the minds of planners and other policymakers is underused. Also, most of the 12 country reports focus on restricted land uses and private property rights. The case study approach renders most interesting results with respect to the meaning of land and its impact on land policy goals. It illustrates that political conversations about land are not merely emp-ty talk. Language determines, for example, whether land is predominantly considered as an economic good that can be sold and bought or as an environmental resource that must be protected from reckless exploitation.