Assistance for building territorial strategies

• Urban planning agencies participate in building territorial strategies

Territorial dynamics and ongoing transitions question the very meaning of strategic planning. We are in an era of territorial interdependencies and reciprocities – whether chosen or imposed. New political and territorial interfaces call for organizing alliances between all types of territories (metropolitan, urban, peri-urban, and rural), challenge the agility of governance methods, and require new frameworks for territorial actions. In this context that reshuffles the cards of territorial development, the missions of urban planning agencies are primarily structured around a work of pooling resources and building a shared vision for the future.

• Urban planning agencies

Urban planning agencies are innovative, partnership-based engineering tools.

For 50 years, their governance and missions have been reinvented to anticipate the various stages of decentralization and territorial development policies and to implement territorial projects.

• Tools for the general interest

Urban planning agencies so…