Foreword
Part I. TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT: A POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Chapter 1 Why territorial policies matter
-Introduction
-1. The growing importance of territorial units
-2. The trend towards globalisation, devolution and supranational entities
-3. The new challenges of governance
-4. Supplementing macroeconomic policy and structural policies
-5. Revisiting industrial policy
-6. The changing course of regional policy
-7. The absolute need for sustainable development
-8. The challenge of new information and communication technologies (ICTs)
-Conclusion
Part II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF DIVERSITY: AN ATLAS OF VARIATIONS WITHIN OECD COUNTRIES
-Introduction
-1. Which indicators for evaluating regional disparities?
-2. Main findings 
Chapter 2 Territorial disparities: current conditions and trends
-Australia
-Austria
-Belgium  
-Canada
-Czech Republic
-Denmark
-Finland
-France  
-Germany
-Greece
-Hungary
-Ireland
-Italy  
-Japan
-Mexico 
-The Netherlands
-New Zealand
-Norway
-Poland
-Portugal
-Spain
-Sweden
-Switzerland
-United Kingdom
-United States
-Annex: territorial levels and sources  
Part III. CORE POLICIES FOR TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
-Introduction
Chapter 3 The conceptual framework 
-Introduction
-1. Territorial development policies
-2. Territorial governance
-Conclusion
Chapter 4 Policies for spatial development
-Introduction
-1. Globalisation: what’s new, and with what spatial consequences
-2. The economic rationale for spatial policies
-3. The economic rationale for spatial planning
-4. Towards renewed spatial policies: goals, principles and issues
-Conclusion
-References
Chapter 5 Policies for economic development
-Introduction
-1. Regional development and socio-economic challenges
-2. Why traditional regional development theory may be unable to inform contemporary policy debates
-3. Rethinking policy responses requires revisiting current practice
-4. The new options offered by policies encouraging territorial competitiveness
-Conclusions
-References
Chapter 6 Policies for social development 
-Introduction
-1. Social, spatial and socio-spatial inequality
-2. The economics of territorial maintenance
-3. Social and spatial equity
-4. Implicit and explicit cohesion policies in the European Union
-5. Implicit territorial policies
-6. Perverse effects of local redistribution
-7. The macroeconomic dimension of implicit territorial policy
-8. Explicit territorial policy
-9. Stimulating the productive economy or the residential economy
-Conclusion
-Bibliography
Part IV. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENTERPRISE AND GOVERNANCE
-Introduction
Chapter 7 Achieving sustainable urban development
-Introduction 
-1 Urban sprawl and brownfields in strategies for sustainable urban development  
-2. New approaches for sustainable development: environmental management systems -3. The learning city-region
-Conclusion
-References
Chapter 8 Improving metropolitan governance
-1. Frameworks for change in metropolitan governance
-2. Implementing the principles of metropolitan governance: Policy guidelines
-3. Governance and non-OECD Countries
Chapter 9 Rural trends and policy issues
-Introduction
-1. Rethinking the key issues
-2. Rural policies in the international arena
-3. New is