ABSTRACT
De Tocqueville’s main concern was the plight of workers living cramped together in such conditions, but the environmental consequences of urbanization are also made evident. De Tocqueville’s legacy was soon apparent with his last work The Old Regime and the Revolution, becoming revered in the 1860s, and his name was widely invoked in democratic movements advancing suffrage across Europe, including Britain. The wretched dwellings of the poor are scattered haphazard around them. Round them stretches land uncultivated but without the charm of rustic nature, and still without the amenities of a town. The roads which connect the still-disjointed limbs of the great city, show, like the rest, every sign of hurried and unfinished work; the incidental activity of a population bent on gain, which seeks to amass gold so as to have everything else all at once, and, in the interval, mistrusts the niceties of life.
