Metropolitan governance and cohesion policy. Evidence and perspectives

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Giancarlo Cotella
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/106
Language Italian Pages 7 P. 40-46 File size 350 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2023-106005
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The increasing metropolization of development patterns challenges traditional territorial governance models, which are based on rigid administrative boundaries that are ill-suited to addressing functional complexity. To meet this challenge, various countries have initiated ad hoc institutional experimentations, and the European Union has partially tuned its cohesion policy. Nevertheless, metropolitan areas do not yet seem to have the status, tools, and funding that would allow them to play a leading role. The contribution draws on the results of the ESPON METRO project to shed light on these issues, reflecting in particular on how the high heterogeneity characterizing the metropolitan phenomenon has so far hindered the emergence of a metropolitan dimension within the EU cohesion policy.

Keywords: metropolitan areas; territorial governance; cohesion policy

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Giancarlo Cotella, Governance metropolitana e politica di coesione. Evidenze e prospettive in "TERRITORIO" 106/2023, pp 40-46, DOI: 10.3280/TR2023-106005