La articulación comarcal y territorial de Galicia a principios del siglo XXI.

Abstract

The set of rules and policies and legislative initiatives prompted in Galicia during the last twenty years, designed to encourage different types of plans to undertake a progressive structuring and revitalization of its territory have had little effect. Similarly, the innovative strategies of territorial management and cooperation implanted in a regional scale, were limited to the creation of short competences voluntary Associations of municipalities, and some local consortium, waiving for now to development and establishment of new regional institutions and metropolitan areas with full legal management entity. In this context, this paper tackles, from a critical perspective, the several regulations approved, the real impact generated by the Regional Development Plan, the articulation of Functional Areas and the main forms of territorial cooperation that are being carried out in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, as well as the polycentric urban system reflected in the recent Land Management Guidelines adopted at the end of 2008.