Cities and countryside in France: a great territorial divide?

The deployment of an urbanization process in the world is not disputable. In France, some have concluded that urbanization is an inevitable linear evolution that will lead to the virtual disappearance of the rural population, and therefore of the countryside, which will lose all specificity. In order to establish a diagnosis and understand the dynamics of French territories, it is necessary to examine the economic and social geography of the territories and whether or not it highlights an urban-rural divide.