Stratégies territoriales au Québec ?

Quebec?s public authorities has traditionally implemented five strategies in order to exploit, develop and manage non metropolitan territoires. Specific outcomes on Quebec?s space question general models made on the basis of more central territories. Access of resources basins represents obviously an important outcome, which determines an original form of few hierarchical urban system. This paper also illustrates various contingent and non linear territorial trajectories of development. Spatial shifts in position are currents in Quebec, illustrated nowadays with the spatial recentering of development in the polynuclear south-east and also the explosion of some poles. In Quebec, territorial institutional construction at two distinctive tiers leaded a participative democracy giving benefit to the collectivities, but seems to be winded by the rigidity of the state. Strategy of interaction implemented towards new territorial elites is questioned, less in the principle than in the model of implementation. In this matter, there is no doubt that territorial strategy concerned with « clusters » will offer new fields of interaction and collective learning about territorial development. In the condition, of course, that this new strategy of sectoriel structuring finds his own territoriality towards various territories well established and well protected. Classification JEL : R10.