Since the explosion of anger of the "yellow vests" in the fall of 2018, the question of geographical disparities has fascinated.
In his famous 2014 essay,
La France péripherique.
How we sacrificed the working classes
, Christophe Guilluy had drawn the outlines of a country cut in two, between metropolises connected to globalization and abandoned territories.
Economists defend a more nuanced vision of the French reality, as the latest note from INSEE on living areas illustrates again.
It makes it possible to quantify the specificities of rurality which, according to the new European definition, corresponds to 88% of French municipalities and one third of the population.
"Smaller territories within which the inhabitants have access to the most common equipment and services",
the living areas structure everyone's daily life.
The number and evolution of equipment - colleges, supermarkets, service stations, bank branches, police/gendarmerie, etc.
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