In Europe, the idea that coordinating transport and urban planning is a necessary condition for setting sustainable urban development into motion has spread throughout academic and professional circles. If there is nothing new regarding this concern, the objectives underlying transport and urban planning coordination have deeply changed since the late 1960s, considering the shift in perspective from adapting the city to the automobile toward promoting sustainable cities and mobilities. Placing the analysis of global doctrines and the local visions and practices in the transport and urban planning fields in their historical background allowed us to question the apparent consensus on the necessity to coordinate transport and urbanism and to e...