<b>A kaleidoscopic look at Paris’s ever-changing forms and people</b><br><br>"Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. <br> <br>Take for example a small outlying district populated by Arabs, blacks and poor whites twenty years ago, the L’Olive neighbourhood north of La Chapelle The area is noted as pleasant, people frequent it and explore it, and as the rents are low some settle there. Others follow, first friends and then anyone else. Rents go up, buildings are renovated, bars open, then an organic food shop, a vegan restaurant... The earlier indigenous inhabitants are driven out by the rising rents and settle further away, in Saint-Denis if they are lucky, or else in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Goussainville or God knows where. <br> <br>"But new neighbourhoods are emerging, for example the Chinese quarter of Bas Bel
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<b>A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures</b><p>Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian...
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<b>How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history</b><br><br>In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance...
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<p><b>How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England''s waterlogged Fens.</b></p><p>2017 <i>Choice</i> Outstanding Academic Title</p><p>The...
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Digital technology is fundamentally altering the world we live in, but can only be truly understood in relation to the physical world we all inhabit. The most successful future products and policies will be those that take this rich digital/physical ecology...
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