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Industrialization and the spread of mechanical modes of transport brought profound changes to centuries-old relationships between town and country and tended to homogenize lifestyles with a bias towards the values of city-dwellers. Attempts were then made by some practitioners to establish a new discipline, “urban planning,” encompassing both knowhow and knowledge on that know-how. Over the years, this “discipline” became a prerogative of the State, as it exercised its powers by shaping the country in line with policies geared to productivity alone, generating criticisms that in turn produced a different approach—environmental in this case. So now the question is this: how do we switch from statutory urban planning to an approach that favors the senses, the elements and a climate of habitability on Earth?