ABSTRACT
Planning an itinerary for the twenty-first-century Grand Tour does not prove easy, because there are so many admirable examples of urban good practice that almost demand to be seen, and because they are scattered across the length and breadth of Europe — from Umeå to Barcelona, from Bilbao to Helsinki. Compelled to choose, we elected to organize the tour, as any tour organizer would logically do, by country and by theme. And associating countries and topics proved to be both easy and useful: no country has a monopoly of good practice under any one heading, but some do offer remarkably good examples in selected areas. Further, these examples often score highly outside those special fields, and so offer interesting lessons in how successful cities manage multidimensional policies.
