The recomposition of the bureaucratic forms in the territorial development. Territorial engineering and intermediation in the project territories

At the heart of territorial processing, engineering puts into practice sets of knowledge and intermediary objects. Such cognitive tool sets ensure the cohesion of multi-level policy making. In this context, modes of contract management do not alter the mediatory function of these tools, even though they get standardized through institutional isomorphism. When territorial engineering turns into bureaucracy, it tends to simply manage procedures within territories which are conceived as implementation areas and disconnected from social stakes.