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31 août 2021
- doi: 10.58079/nhap
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Village government Hamlets (Villages) Soil Mould, Vegetable Vegetable mold Earth (Soils) Mold, Vegetable Roadways Thoroughfares Highways Populations, Human Human populations Population growth Human population Organisation Geoscience Geognosy 18th century Strait of Calais Straits of Dover Fretum Gallicum Strait of Dover Pas de Calais Dover Strait Calais, Strait of Communal settlements Cooperative living Communes Global cities Towns Urban systems Municipalities Urban areas Demography DemographicsCiter ce document
DCUN, « Nord pas de Calais Mineral Field - France », Diffuse Cities and Urbanization Network, ID : 10.58079/nhap
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This mineral field was first shaped by agricultural practices and, since the 18th century, by the development of mines which partly erased the rural substrata. The spatial organization of its roads, canals, towns, and villages took into account the geology of the soil and the underground. Human establishments and facilities developed around a coal seam. Today the mineral field is a polycentric system of 1.2 million inhabitants and 245 communes, the largest of which (Lens) has a population of...