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This chapter introduces the book by explaining the novelties it aims at introducing, the scientific, research and teaching activities that supported its elaboration and, lastly, the plan of its constitutive chapters and their respective achievements. The chapter highlights how the book offers a unique critical reflection on some of the most important innovations and experimentations introduced in the framework of renewed EU urban and regional policy over the last programming period by emphasising the interplay between the urban and regional dimensions of the reformed EU cohesion policy.
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Fedeli, V., Lenzi, C., Briata, P., Pedrazzini, L. (2020). Introduction. In: EU Regional and Urban Policy. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34575-4_1
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