For thousands of years, a hidden rule limited the size of empires, unbeknownst to their rulers.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
We don’t realize it, but the shape of our cities—from how big they are to what services they have—is mainly driven by one thing: transport technologies.| 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