Today, there is a broad consensus that more coordination between transport and land-use policies is necessary to achieve sustainable urban development and mobility. If there is nothing new in the question regarding the interaction between spatial organization and transport, the ideas underlining this concern and the purposes of public policies have deeply evolved over the centuries. How have local authorities translated the requirements and objectives of national laws? In this research we focused on the question of political change by comparing the "trajectories" of four urban areas: Geneva and Bern in Switzerland and Strasbourg and Bordeaux in France. Ideals of land use-transport coherence are static, unlike the reality of urban policy, wh...