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IN his work on the Atmosphere, M. Flammarion draws attention to a peculiarity in the habits of our large towns which everyone must have noticed. “The wealthy classes have a pronounced tendency to emigrate westward, leaving the eastern districts for the labouring populations. This remark applies not only to Paris, but to most great cities—London, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Turin, Liége, Toulouse, Montpellier, Caen, and even Pompeii.”
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BARRETT, W. The Westerly Progress of Cities. Nature 8, 102–103 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008102d0
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