Attractiveness is a new motto of urban and development policies. It reveals capitalism transformation in a flexible accumulation system in which catching economic and human flows become a stake for territorial development. However, catching flows leads to unfairness and creates new inequalities in a context of globalization in which spatial organization in networks and strong accumulation processes are sought. This research aims at analyzing the processes within the “black holes” of globalization and to explain the leeway for local looser cities in front of this new territorial development paradigm. This project focuses three traditional industrial cities whose economic, social and demographic evolutions are weakening and worsening. The hyp...