This paper examines the interdisciplinary literature on the role of the UE action in territorial and urban sector in the description of the widest process than integration between the states members.
It presents the fundamental characters of the urban and metropolitan space of European level and analyses to the inside of the regional policy, territorial and urban politics of the European Community, and the main communitarian initiatives in territorial sector in order to support the territorial cohesion and one development balanced between region.
At last, it discusses the limits and the results of the urban and territorial policies unfolded for dealing the problems find you as deserving of communitarian operation with reference to the action and the instruments to uses you in this sector.