This article calls for a territorial dimension of the Green Deal for cities, towns, villages, and regions. Dynamics of Peripheries are argued as promising accelerator for an effective and just transition of large parts of European territories—fragmented, diverse, and facing dynamic transformation processes. Place-oriented strategies towards Reserves of Resilience are discussed as important contribution to overall transformation to sustainability. The need to foster Territorial Creativity for a new Habitat Vision of large parts of European territories is put forward to innovate of concepts and tools of urbanism and of action-oriented research: able to empower communities for co-creating shared visions and processes of transformation