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14 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifp.6411
- eisbn: 9791036549724
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Pondicherry urban landscape culture Tamil house territoire urbain culture maison tamoule Urban Studies SOC026030 JFSGSujets proches
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Robert Dulau, « Exploring Pondicherry and its site through physical and human geography », Institut Français de Pondichéry, ID : 10.4000/books.ifp.6411
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A town does not grow up by chance but is closely interrelated with its locality. Climate and the nature of the landscape are factors which give rise to a particular type of settlement in a particular place. In order to know a town we must first find it on the map. Pondicherry is situated on the east coast of India, the Coromandel Coast in the Bay of Bengal, at latitude 12°5’ and longtitude 79°6’. There are few elevated areas in the region around Pondicherry and this is why the rivers, flowing...