European territorial cooperation and the concept of urban – rural relationships

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Acknowledgement

This article is partly based on research carried out in 2006 as part of the ESPON-INTERACT thematic study on polycentric urban development and rural-urban partnership (see Zonneveld et al., 2006). The authors also wish to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Dutch government through the Habiforum Program on Innovative Land Use and of Delft University of Technology through the Delft Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas.

Notes

1. INTERREG Animation Cooperation and Transfer.

2. For more information on the INTERREG programmes, please refer to the introduction to this Special Issue (Dühr et al., this issue 2007).

3. This was reported by various project partners at the ESPON-INTERACT seminar on Polycentric Development and Urban – Rural Partnership held in The Hague on 25 April 2006.