This paper debates the evolution and importance of the urban dimension of EU policies and
in particular EU Cohesion Policy in the past three decades. It discusses the growing …

Even though efforts have been made in recent decades to revive urban areas in the
European Union (EU), the contemporary challenges that mostly large cities face require …

The paper provides an analysis of the difference in the tools adopted in the Spanish urban
policies between the two last EU programming cycles (2014–2020 and 2021–2027). After …

This paper aims to discuss radical changes, institutional responses and their socio-spatial
consequences by focusing on reorganisation of institutional settings of local economic …

After a new and ambitious reform, referred to as the 'Territorial Big Bang', France was
confronted, from the end of 2018, with the revolt of the yellow vests, often originating from the …

In his overview of growth pole strategies, Parr (1999) demonstrated how the scientific
concept of dominance and economic space elaborated by François Perroux became a …

Russian urban planning and government are undergoing a metropolitan turn. The Russian
central government is seeking to spatially rebalance the Russian economy by creating new …

Renewed political concern about geographical inequalities in the wake of the global
financial crisis of 2008 raises questions about the ability of the prevalent pre-crisis model of …

In the framework of the territorial dimension of EU cohesion policy, the European
Commission has been offering the establishment of functional regions. The response at the …

Urban planning offers various design possibilities to solve fundamental challenges faced in
urban areas. These include the need to physically renew old industrial and harbour riverside …