General Knowledge: The City

References

• General Knowledge: The City
  General Knowledge: The City
• Bibliographies to review the themes of the city and engagement
  These bibliographies will give you a very complete approach on the ...

News/Politics

• Culture: London becomes the world’s leading tourist city ahead of Paris in 2014
  More than 16 million tourists visited London this year, overtaking Paris. Paris was ...

Philosophy

• Work for the American Indians according to Tocqueville
  Excerpt from De la démocratie en Amérique, by Tocqueville, on the ...
• Alexis de Tocqueville – Wealth and Poverty
  Why is Alexis de Tocqueville Often classified on the right? These extracts ...
• Quotes on the City
  Quotes about the city in ancient and medieval times “Men gather in ...
• Tocqueville – The success of Manchester
  Alexis de Tocqueville is a fine analyst. Here, his reflection is ...
• Bodin – Difference between the City and the Town
  Jean Bodin, in The Six Books of the Republic (1583), speaks ...
• The service sector in cities
  The city differs from the rural world in the activities that ...
• Thomas More – Cities of Utopia
  In The Utopia or the treaty of the best form of ...
• The city for INSEE
  What is the city for INSEE? The institute has developed its own ...
• Studying the city with Max Weber
  Max Weber is a well-known sociologist and a key figure at ...
• Corrected subject – “Dogmatic beliefs” – Tocqueville, On Democracy in America
  This subject notably fell in the philosophy test of the 2015 ...

History

• Romulus creates the city of Rome
  The gesture of Romulus to draw the contours of the city ...
• How hygiene helped cities fight pandemics
  As the world seeks to protect itself from the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
• Jericho, first city of the world?
  Legend has it that Jericho was the first city in history. The ...

Economics

• The 100 largest cities in the world
  The 100 largest Cities in the world. The ranking takes into ...

Law

• French law – The Case of the Three Cities Paris, Lyon and Marseille
  Title 3 – Local and Regional Authorities Chapter 5 – Cooperation between local authorities Chapter 6 – The ...

Sociology

• Tocqueville – The French revolution comparable to religious revolutions
  Alexis de Tocqueville, who can be said to have been one ...
• More than half the world lives in cities
  Globally, one in two people has been living in Cities since ...
• The 100 largest cities in the world
  The 100 largest Cities in the world. The ranking takes into ...
• The demographic balance of the city – Louis Wirth
  Louis Wirth, one of the representatives of the Chicago School, notes ...
• For Eugène Guillevic, the city is what matters most
  “Yet the city is what matters most, what must matter most. ...

Method

• Mock exam on the City
  This is to give you an idea of what you may ...

Academia

• Summer reading on the city
  If you are looking for summer reading ideas and want to ...