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This engaging and topical book comprehensively explores the
complexities surrounding the EU Cohesion Policy, which has been
addressing regional and urban development across Europe since the
1980s. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, it considers the
goals of this long-term investment policy, which is to reduce
territorial disparities between Member States and their regions,
and its role in the European integration process. Bringing together
contributions from an interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars
and policy practitioners, chapters offer expert analysis of the
disciplinary genealogies of the EU Cohesion Policy, its
contemporary issues, and perceptive reflections on its future. The
book provides keen insights into current academic-policy debates,
and a deeper understanding of the EU Cohesion Policy’s
achievements. The expert’s insights contribute to the debate that
this policy must face to address the most pressing European
challenges. Each chapter includes different perspectives ranging
from political, economic and legal to the urban and social
dimensions and investigates ways to boost research-policy dialogue
on Cohesion Policy. Offering a forward-thinking account of the
topic, this timely book will be welcomed by students, academics,
researchers, and policymakers alike in disciplines including human
geography and geopolitics, European politics and policy, economics,
public policy, and urban and regional studies.
This book highlights the discontinuities and the ongoing
development of the urban question in policy-making in the context
of the controversial current issues of global reversal and regional
revival. It critically examines contemporary public policies and
practices at the urban, regional and national scales in order to
offer a timely contribution to the debate on the significance of
the urban dimension and interpretation in terms of the theory,
policy and practice of social-spatial research in the twenty-first
century. Focusing on Europe, it explores the current urban policy
agendas at different scales - and the mobility of those agendas -,
their implications, contradictions and controversies. It brings
together original contributions from multiple disciplines but with
an urban perspective, including empirical case studies and critical
discussions of the following topics: the UN 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, the global "New Urban Agenda" as part of
the Habitat III process; the Urban Agenda for the European Union;
national spatial policies related to urban agendas; urban agendas
at regional/urban levels; city regionalism discourse and state
rescaling; new formal regional and metropolitan governments as a
solution (or problem); the role of new actors in regional
urbanization dynamics; multi-level governance processes in
developing an urban agenda; informal assemblages at the
metropolitan scale aiming at constructing the urban concept and
dimension. Given its scope, the book is of interest to urban,
regional and EU policy-makers, scholars and students working in the
fields of urban geography, urban studies, EU urban and regional
policies, and planning.
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