Subject(s): Urbanization in France. -- City planning in France. -- Urban regions Regional planning in France -- Analysis of Initial Urban Policies -- Housing issue -- Rise of Planning Mentality -- Early Professional in France -- Issues and Challenges After the Second World War -- Changing nature of Urbanization -- Centralization of urban policies -- New comprehensive planning -- Experts and Decision making -- Grands Ensembles and land Policy -- Modern Towns and Ways of Life -- Planning and public utility -- Grasroot movements -- Anthropology of territories -- Communities and Social Control -- Present Perspectives on Local Development -- Quantitative to Qualitative Aspects -- Genie Urban -- Urban Services : French experience -- Local Programmes and partnership