MENU: 3.1.3. High-rises ahead of their time
"THE OLYMPIADES," APPROVED IN 1966, ABANDONED IN 1977...
"The neighborhood needed cleaning up, but not in the way meant for the trenches of World War I. One could "renovate" on a human scale, but we got this delirious and oppressive gigantism..."
-- Léo Malet, 1978,
Preface to the new edition of Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac
(Fog on the Tolbiac Bridge), 1956
The towers crush the little houses.
Workers and craftspeople, peaceful, humble folk, modest marginals [... ] little whores with flowers in their hair [... ] people who were not very smart, probably, but who were human [... ] they no longer have a place in this technocratic universe."
-- Brouillard sur le pont de Tolbiac, continued
So Vietnamese refugees found
housing that was well built and affordable.
A site unique to Paris
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