Talk:La Chaux-de-Fonds

City or town?
In my opinion, it is clearly, by Swiss standards, a city, because of its size, regional centre political, economical and cultural importance.

claude (talk) 19:10, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

When writing about La Chaux-de-Fonds in English, in terms of its magnitude and prominence within the politico-demographic map of today's Switzerland, would it be more appropriate to describe it as a city (as on this page), or a town (as on the page of La Chaux-de-Fonds (district))? -- Thanks, Deborahjay 09:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

City or town?
I guess the people how wrote the page for (as on this page) is not making the difference, because there is french spoken area and to aplicate english (esp. writing) we encounter dificulties.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.18.10 (talk) 07:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

The Gallet
It seems that the company is trying to push some advertising through Wikipedia and the La Chaux-de-Fonds page. I moved all the mess to Léon Gallet for the history of the father and Gallet & Co. for the "history" of the company. Hope that the people who inserted the Gallet history understand that the La Chaux-de-Fonds page is not about the Gallet family, but the city who one's they inhabited (among thousands of other people). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fib2004 (talk • contribs) 16:06, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Apparently, they have moved back everything, as per today's peruse of the page! I share your opinion, but do not feel that it is up to me to act on my own. claude (talk) 19:23, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

World heritage site
This article was not written in news style, and not in encyclopaedia style, but can some content, sources be merged into the article proper?

It is unusual. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) awarded the world heritage status to two industrial cities from Switzerland. It is unusual because many see in this status the recognition of ancient beauty, rather than industrial dynamism. The towns of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle are accidental. Their history is based on a single industry, watch-making, which shaped their planning and architecture, in a region where, for climatic reasons, nothing else could have been done.

Watch-making began and developed there during the 17th and 18th century. During the long winters of the Jura mountains, at an altitude of about a 1000 meters, peasants began to create and build watches. In 1794, a great fire destructed La Chaux-de-Fonds. Autorities decided to carefully plan the rebuilding to accomodate the watch-making industry, which was already predominant at the time. For the next two centuries, the two cities florished along with their main industry.

According to the UNESCO, the cities are recognized because they present "outstanding examples of mono-industrial manufacturing-towns which are well preserved and still active." In Das Kapital, Karl Marx described La Chaux-de-Fonds as a "huge factory-town". And there was born and studied Le Corbusier, who left few buildings in the town, but was greatly inspired by its planning and architecture.

The world heritage comittee holds his 33rd meeting between the 22nd and 30th of June 2009 in Sevilla, Spain.

Original Editor: Fib2004 SriMesh | talk  05:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Tower of Hercules (Spain) inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List alongside two Swiss watch-making towns pub=UNESCOPRESS|date=June 28, 2009}}
 * World heritage bid timed to perfection|author=Stefania Summermatter pub=swissinfo.ch|date=June 27, 2009}}

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Area display problem
I had my attention caught by the figure of 5,000+ km², which is total nonsense, and I had a look at the source code, which states the right figure of 55 km². I have no time right now to check how wiki code works in details, but there's a separator problem somewhere, so if seasoned user knows how to deals this out, thanks in advance. Gégène (talk) 13:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)