In an ever more prominent European context, the aim is to compare urban systems' s performances, as systems of cities. West-Germany and France are chosen, as each of them represent a very specific urban system type : the centralised type is represented with France and the network type with West-Germany. Tracing from 1930 producer service's spatial diffusion, allows to underline three major phases which find their spatial counterparts in an urban perspective. Baring this in mind, national structural differences can be dug out : a great number of high rank cities in a network type of system as that of West-Germany intensifies the diffusion speed in the appearance phase, whereas the spreading is slowed down in the expansion phase ; so much, th...