欧盟的中小城镇发展策略

The European Union's Strategies for Small and Medium-sized Cities and Towns

文章主要讨论了欧盟中小城镇的发展策略。首先分析了中小城镇的作用和潜力,接下来总结了欧盟对中小城镇越来越多的关注和相关政策,反映了欧盟在政策框架下整合城市问题的决心。文章还批判性地分析了欧盟政策框架下的一些主要文件、方案以及相关的规范性概念。欧盟政策框架中越来越多地出现所谓"城市层面"的各类战略,然而专门的设计、国土发展重点以及与中小城镇的关系仍不明确。

This paper primarily discusses strategies for the development of small and medium-sized cities and towns in Europe Union. The roles and potentials of small and medium-sized cities and towns are analyzed firstly. Then it primarily summarizes the growing concerns and related policies on medium-sized cities and towns in the following part, which reflected the ambitions to integrate urban issues within the EU policy framework. Some of the major policy documents and programmes as well as related normative concepts of the EU policy framework are critically analyzed. The so-called ＇urban dimension＇ is emerging in various strategies within the EU policy framework, whereas its specific design and territorial focus, also in relation to small and medium-sized cities and towns, remains to be rather vague.