III.1.4. A HISTORICAL PANEL THAT SKIPS WHAT COUNTS

LIKE MOST OF THE 700 SIGNS THAT DOT THE CITY, THE INFORMATION ON THE PANEL OUTSIDE THE TOWERS IS IRRELEVANT 

It describes technical aspects of the towers' construction but not their abandonment or the reason for the Asian presence.  

"Building this ensemble between 1968 and 1975 under the direction of the architect Michel Holley was an element of the restauration known as Italie 13. The site was then occupied by the Gobelins warehouse: it was rebuilt underground and covered over with a slab on which were built towers, buildings and boutiques. Underground automobile circulation, sites for walking and equipment on the slab, high-rising habitations, such were the principles of the functionalist urbanization [...].

"That audacious modernist architecture became a cosmopolitan site, Asiatics establishing themselves there from 1975." 

Why?

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And for an exception, here (please scroll down).

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3.1.5.

Beyond the towers