A pan-European survey of strategic planning issues in response to technological innovation and its spatial consequences, this text should interest all planners, geographers and others concerned wtih the planning and management of economic development.

1: Part I; 1: The Revival of Strategic Spatial Planning in Europe; 2: An Institutionalist Approach to Spatial Planning; 2: Part II; 3: A Plan of Hope and Glory; 4: Building Strategic Urban Planning in France; 5: Images as Institution Builders; 6: Building New Institutions for Strategic Planning; 7: Plan-Making in the Zürich Region; 8: Strategic Development Planning in Western Norway; 9: Rhetoric and Reality in British Structure Planning in Lancashire, 1993–5; 10: A Plan with a Purpose; 11: Working in a Democratic Culture; 12: Community to Communication; Part III; 13: The Institutional Relations of Plan-Making; 14: Agenda-Setting in European Spatial Planning; 15: Planning Strategies and Planning Methods; 16: Strategic Plan-Making and Building Institutional Capacity