The new ways of life in postindustrial societies are characterized by increasingly easier material or immaterial communications. The consequence is a new spatial feeling. This point of view upon postmodernity may interest geographers. Globalisation, which is one among the pre-eminent features of postindustrial societies, may result, by feed-back, in a return to conceptions of spatial organization which seemed disappeared forever. In France, the Loi d'orientation pour l'aménagement (Planning Act), enforced in 1995, points out the pays (which does not belong to the French traditionnal administrative spatial hierarchy, but is a empiricist concept developed by French geographers of the beginning of the century) as a frame for local planning and development. Indeed this suggestion is enjoying a huge success. In fact it is a rather ambiguous idea, but perhaps, also, the beginning of a revitalised local life that avoids an administrative frame which seemed intangible.