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This introduction sums up the main results of a series of analyses which describe a state of the urban frame evolution of a part of Northern Gaul and Germania during the Late Antiquity. Based on regional approaches and case studies, this issue allows to measure the varied rhythms of the towns – mainly small towns – evolution, and to examine the changes, which occur in the fields of public equipments, shapes of housing or economic activities. These papers allow us to conclude that a partly renewed urban network is emerging, from the 5th c. AD, after a transformation which mostly occurred in the 3rd-4th c. AD.