EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance

Edited by Daniel Rauhut, Affiliated Researcher, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal and Research Associate, Institute for Applied Research of Ageing, Villach, Austria, Franziska Sielker, Lecturer in Planning and Housing, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK and Alois Humer, Professor of Applied Geography, Spatial Research and Spatial Planning, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria

Contents:

Preface xix
1 EU Cohesion Policy and European spatial governance: an
introduction to territorial, economic and social challenges 1
Franziska Sielker, Daniel Rauhut and
Alois Humer
2 EU Cohesion Policy: the past, the present and the future 17
Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés

PART A TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE
3 Territorial governance aspects in the EU’s Cohesion
Policy: an introduction 27
Alois Humer and Daniel Rauhut
4 Spatial framing within EU Cohesion Policy and spatial planning:
towards functional and soft spaces, yet on different paths 31
Eva Purkarthofer and Peter Schmitt
5 Cohesion Policy as a driver of Europeanisation:
a comparative analysis 48
Giancarlo Cotella and Marcin Dąbrowski
6 Territorial cohesion and the sea: experiences from
European maritime spatial planning 66
John Moodie, Franziska Sielker and
David Goldsborough
7 Urban Policy in European Cohesion Policy 83
Karsten Zimmermann and Rob Atkinson
8 European (dis)integration: implications for the EUropean
Cohesion Policy 98
Estelle Evrard and Tobias Chilla
9 Commentary: complex EU cohesion and ‘integration mark 2’ 115
Andreas Faludi

PART B URBAN AND REGIONAL INEQUALITIES
10 Urban and regional inequality aspects of the EU’s
Cohesion Policy: an introduction 124
Franziska Sielker and Alois Humer
11 Territorial cohesion, polycentrism and regional disparities:
revisiting an unsolved debate 127
Evert Meijers and Krister Sandberg
12 Can the EU Cohesion Policy fight peripheralization? 142
Júlia A. Nagy and József Benedek
13 Does Cohesion Policy affect territorial inequalities and
regional development? 156
Lionel Védrine and Julie Le Gallo
14 Smart specialisation, peripheries and the EU Cohesion Policy 171
Cristina Serbanica
15 What regions benefit from the post-2009-crisis Cohesion
Policy? Evidence from a Territorial Cohesion Development Index 185
Daniel Rauhut and Nuno Marques da Costa
16 Commentary: urban and regional inequalities and the
architecture of EU Cohesion Policy 199
Tomasz Komornicki

PART C SOCIAL ASPECTS AND WELLBEING
17 Social aspects in the EU’s Cohesion Policy: an introduction 208
Daniel Rauhut and Franziska Sielker
18 EU Cohesion Policy: towards grounded cities and regions 216
Yvonne Franz and Alois Humer
19 Mobility in the Danube Region: the role of transnational
cooperation in addressing challenges of migration 230
Elisabeth Gruber and Ádám Németh
20 Between markets and social rights: confused EU housing policies 244
Iván Tosics and Simone Tulumello
21 Commentary: social issues and wellbeing in the EU –
challenges for Cohesion Policy 260
Eduarda Marques da Costa

PART D CONCLUDING REMARKS
22 Unsettled questions of disintegration, discontent and discretion 272
Alois Humer, Daniel Rauhut and Franziska Sielker
Afterword: territorial cohesion, a never-ending academic challenge? 276
Klaus R. Kunzmann

Index