The future is urban: The progressive renaissance of the city in EU law

• Main Author: VISSER, De Maartje
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: local authorities; cities; implementation agents; value communities; local democracy; policy-making; urban interests; European Law; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3458; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5416/viewcontent/7JIntlCompL389_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For much of the European integration process, local authorities have been on the legal margins. Yet many amongst this group, and cities in particular, consider themselves as important players in realising the Union’s overarching policy objectives. This view is slowly but surely fi nding traction wit...