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Reference

823

Shape of a City (The)

The city used to end where the country began. Nowadays, it extends on the suburbs, which form an intermediary domain.
Hervé Le Bras, a demographer, visits Nantes a big city in France and describes new ways of living in the city and its suburbs, thanks to transports which permit people to settle where they want it to.

Duration

00:24:00

Production year

Définition

SD

Sound

Sound

Version(s)

French

Original material

video Beta SP

Personality(ies)

Scientific topics

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