TERCUD2012-04-022012-04-0220101646-3765http://hdl.handle.net/10437/2273Malha Urbana: Revista Lusófona de UrbanismoThe present documents get together reflection elements that allow sustaining the irreversibility of the process that leads to the creation of a Directorate General for Urban AffairsThe irreversibility of this process results of the assumed necessity to implement the cooperation between Member-States in respect to the urban and territorial development policy. It is time, with vision, to assume the urgency to create, as well, in this area an European joint policy and which are the necessary structures for its definition and implementation within the EU framework. O Directorate General for Urban Affairs deverá articular-se em particular com o Comité Económico e Social e com o Comité das RegiõesThe present text is based essentially on political documents on urban and territorial affairs elaborated in the extent of the EU and in the general guideline documents produced by the EU, which favor social, economic and territorial integration.application/pdfengopenAccessURBANISMOURBANISMUNIÃO EUROPEIAEUROPEAN UNIONarticle