The weight of local stakeholders on policy development remains limited, even within so-called participatory approaches. Improving the distribution of powers between technical leadership and civil society is a fundamental challenge to avoid blockages, identity politics and utopias of the "global village." The geographer should include the political dimension of the territories in his thinking, and play a key role in the emergence of a new type of democratic process, from the local to the global. We propose, as the bottom-up territorial planning, and interscalar actually endogenous dynamics. Install a local dynamics then involves three assumptions: the principle of endogenous local dynamics...