The editors have brought together contributions from specialists in the three countries.

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: change and choice: the agenda of planning Jack Hayward; Part I. The National Context: 1. France Yves Ullmo; 2. Britain Trevor Smith; 3. Italy Gianfranco Pasquino and Umberto Pecchini; Part II. Industrial Policy: 4. Planning and industry in France Jean-Jacques Bonnaud; 5. Industrial planning in Britain Trevor Smith; 6. Italian industrial policy in the framework of economic planning Gioachino Fraenkel; 7. A comparison of the industrial experiences Stephen Young; Part III. Employment and Incomes: Comparative preliminaries Jack Hayward and John Corina: 8. Planning and the French labour market: incomes and industrial training Jack Hayward; 9. Planning and the British labour market: incomes and manpower policy, 1965-70 John Corina; 10. Incomes and employment policies in Italian economic planning Isidoro Franco Mariani; Comparative conclusions Jack Hayward; Part IV. The Regional Dimension: 11. The French regional planning experiments Pierre Gremion and Jean-Pierre Worms; 12. Regional planning in Britain Maurice Wright and Stephen Young; 13. Regional planning in Italy Valerio Selan and Rosita Donnini; 14. The regional dimension of planning Michael Watson; Part V. Land-use Policy: 15. Urban planning in France Francois d'Arcy and Bruno Jobert; 16. Innovation and change in British land-use planning Jim Sharpe; 17. Land-use planning in Italy Attilio Bastianini and Giuliano Urbani; 18. Urban planning and political institutions: an essay in comparison Bruno Jobert; Part VI: 19. Transport policy Jean Claude Theonig and Nigel Despicht; Part VII: 20. The use of long-term studies in planning Bernard Cazes; Part VIII: 21. Planning as the regulatory reproduction of the status quo Lucien Nizard; Conclusion: A comparative evaluation of planning practice in the liberal democratic state Michael Watson; General bibliography; Index.