Assistance to participate in territorial debate

• Urban planning agencies help raise awareness and facilitate territorial debate

Urban planning agencies, thanks to their partnership-based positioning and neutrality, act as connectors between stakeholders. Building on this and their local roots, they play a role in territorial facilitation for which they develop innovative participatory activities and methods.
Agencies draw on both their expertise and their facilitation skills to move away from "territorial confrontation" and towards co-construction.

• Urban planning agencies

Urban planning agencies are innovative engineering tools, founded on partnership.

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 are associations governed by the law of 1901. The board of directors or the executive committee guides the strategy; the general assembly is the decision-making body. It is composed of representatives of all members of the association. They form the core of the partnership. The members are:
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