The Europeanization of spatial planning through territorial cooperation

Convergencia urbana: ¿oportunidades para la colaboración transfronteriza en Matamoros y Brownsville (México-Estados Unidos)?

“…La mayor parte de la experiencia transfronteriza en planificación y gestión urbanas se ha desarrollado en las fronteras internas de la Unión Europea, donde se está procediendo a una creciente y progresiva "europeización" de la ordenación del territorio y a la coordinación de políticas territoriales (Dühr et al, 2010). Por el contrario, en la frontera México-Estados Unidos es por ahora un proceso limitado y complicado debido a distintos obstáculos (Fuentes y Peña, 2005;Peña, 2007Peña, , 2011Vázquez, 2001).…”

Convergence and cohesion: the contribution made by Poland to the debate about regional policies of the European Union

“…The reform is based on the principle of subsidiarity and is seen as a way to make Poland become European more quickly. The Polish approach is currently the most advanced one of self-government in the East (Duhr et al 2010). As mentioned above, there are many ethnic minorities in the eastern border in Poland: Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians.…”

Networking in a transnational cooperation space - the case of the Oder Partnership

“…This resulted in the European Spatial Development Perspective ESDP (signed in 1999 by the then 15 EU member countries) and its follow-up document, the Territorial Agenda of the European Union TAEU (signed in 2007 by all 27 Member States). The members agreed on the objectives of territorial cohesion and polycentric development, objectives to be reached notably by the means of territorial cooperation (Dühr et al 2007). The two targets of achieving a balanced development of all regions in the EU and of strengthening global competitiveness the EU territory as a whole converge in the strategy to foster the development of metropolitan regions in order to achieve a better integration into global market structures-notably of those situated outside the EU core area defi ned in the ESDP.…”