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Interesting that you can still see the effects of WWI in the north.
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I’m reading this as housing boom in the 70’s and 80’s, Paris needs new housing, and people are moving to the west.
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They do have catacombs. They could build a city under the city, with multiple levrls of streets!
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Unequal bins lead me to wonder if they were cherry picked to tell a specific story. #howToLieWithMaps101
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They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.
- Industrial revolution
- Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
- 1946 to 1970 is “les trente glorieuses”, the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
- The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
- The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
- 2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.
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1946-1970 appears to be high density housing. 20% and just small squares peppered around urban centers.
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Makes sense, there’s no more land.