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Town handbooks are a shared knowledge tool whose method has been developed in the scope of a regional workshop, led by the CAUE du Nord from the beginning of the 2000s (see Methodology of town handbooks).
Each handbook presents a range of fields of information about a town (Registration and Development of the town on its site; Urban representations; evolution of the urban landscape; heritage mediation; possibilities of enhancement of a fortified town; Bibliography). The aim of the handbook is to help cause to emerge a common culture around the heritage-related issue linked to former stronghold fortified towns.

Through the potentiality map, the town handbook provides the necessary basics to enrich reflection on the place to be given to natural and cultural heritage in an approach to sustainable development.
Founded upon a common structure incorporating maps made according to the same format, the town handbooks are designed to allow comparisons between towns (see Comparative Cartography) and to establish urban typologies (typological maps).
They are completed by maps that cover the entire Septentrion territory and that allow towns to fall in line with their urban network over several development phases (see History of a network of towns).