Planning cities for the future: the successes and failures of urban economic strategies in Europe

1. The urban context and the need for economic-strategic planning -- 2. The literature on urban competitiveness and strategic-economic planning -- 3. The economic and geographic analysis of urban competitiveness -- 4. The ten cities and their planning at the outset of the 1990s -- 5. How these planning initiatives fared during 1992-2005 -- 6. The ten cities and their planning for 2005-2015 -- 7. Lessons from the past and a look to the future.