Bodin – Difference between the City and the Town
Jean Bodin, in The Six Books of the Republic (1583), speaks of the difference that can be established between town and city. This is the occasion for a little historical …
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More than half the world lives in cities
Globally, one in two people has been living in Cities since 2008. This is what theUN estimates: “2008 will mark the first year in human history when more than half …
The service sector in cities
The city differs from the rural world in the activities that are carried out there. Thus, as one might expect, the primary sector is spread out over the entire territory …
Thomas More – Cities of Utopia
In The Utopia or the treaty of the best form of government, Thomas More criticizes certain features of his time. It is the occasion for him to give a description …
The 100 largest cities in the world
The 100 largest Cities in the world. The ranking takes into account figures available in 2013. Ranking City Inhabitants (date of data) Country 1 Tokyo 37,730,064 (2012) Japan 2 Mexico 23,293,783 (2013) …
The city for INSEE
What is the city for INSEE? The institute has developed its own definition, which is still used today, that you can use to understand the statistics on the city. Here …