Part I 1 The revival of strategic spatial planning in Europe -- 2 An institutionalist approach to spatial planning -- 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.