General Knowledge: The City

Here is a compilation of the best articles on the city for your revision.

Read also Courrier International’s articles on the city.

City: general concepts :

• The 100 largest cities in the world
• Definitions of the city
• The very different cities in the countries of the world
• List of the departments with their capitals in order of importance

Literature/philosophy course on the City :

• The heart of the Belly of Paris – Emile Zola
• New York – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Separation of City and Country – Marx and Engels
• Manchester – Alexis de Tocqueville
• Two loves made two cities – Saint Augustine
• Cities of Utopia – Thomas More

Economics/sociology course on the city:

• Studying the city with Max Weber
• City: the improvement and sanitation of cities
• The city for the INSEE
• The relationship between the urban and the rural in the face of current changes
• Urbanization rates
• Bodin – Difference between the City and the Town
• The demographic balance of the city – Louis Wirth
• The colors of the city – Robert Ezra Park
• Urbanization – Ferdinand Tönnies
• The tertiary sector in cities
• The end of the village – Jean-Pierre le Goff

History course on the City :

• What is the ghetto?
• Romulus creates the city of Rome
• Jericho, the first city in the world?

Directions for Reviewing the City Theme:

• Summer reading on the theme of the city
• Bibliography to revise the theme of the city

Topics / answers on the theme of the City :

• Practice topics on the theme of the City

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