Article 2 of A Science of Cities| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Cities can be treated like physics, like a deterministic science.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why so far north? So cold? Why not on a big river or a coast? Why the biggest city in Europe? Why the capital of the biggest country on Earth?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How technology, peace and force go together, and how they engendered nation-states| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And how did it grow from a backwater to a global capital?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The hidden forces behind the success of some cities and not others| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
France is weird. Why is it the biggest sea country in the world? Why was it the most powerful? Why is it not even the most powerful in Europe anymore? Why is it the only country in the continent that belongs both to the north and the south? While most nations in the continent have formed in the last couple of centuries, France has been around for over a thousand years. Why so long?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com