Săgeată, Radu2014-02-282014-02-282012Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 31 (2), s. 95-106, 2012978-83-62662-62-30137-477Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/10157Romania’s local administrative-territorial organisation shows a high degree of fragmentation. The situation tends to worsen as some villages break away from the parent communes and form new administrative-territorial structures. Since their area is fairly small and adequate financial resources to sustain some coherent, long-term development programmes are missing, a solution would be for them to associate freely into inter-communal cooperation structures, which is a basic prerequisite for attracting European structural funds. Such a type of cooperation practice was experienced in this country at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, inter-communal cooperation could be achieved in two ways: by an association of local communities patterned on historical ‘lands’ (after the French model) and by the establishment of a town, of the metropolitan type, to polarise cooperation structures.enadministrative fragmentationinter-communal cooperationregional developmentRomaniaArtykuł