With the voting in of the French "SRU" ("Solidarity and Urban Renewal") law in 2000, complementing the 1999 laws strengthening intercommunal cooperation (known as the Chevènement Law) and guidance on the sustainable layout and development of territories (known as the Voynet Law), France committed itself to a major wave of projects to renew and modernise urban planning tools and methods, by laying down requirements for new urban planning documents: the SCoT (Territorial Cohesion Plan) at metropolitan-area level; the PLU (Local Development Plan) at municipal or intercommunal level; and the PADD (Sustainable Development Plan). By deciding to no longer produce urban planning documents on behalf of local authorities, the deconcentrated departments and services of the French State opened up a new market for urban planners. The aim of this article – published in the proceedings of the ISOCARP World Congress in Bilbao in 2005 – is, in this context, to identify the challenges that the urban planning profession must face and overcome.

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