THE TOWERS SEEMED SYMBOLS OF SOULLESS TECHNOCRACY AND THEIR APARTMENTS DID NOT SELL
"Will we still find what used to be the living heart of the neighborhood...
The towers hover over 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
That rebuff let refugees from the Vietnam war find decent, affordable housing. Other Asians followed and "Chinatown" was born.
(From 1975)
Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration
Poster announcing that an exhibit on immigration of southeast Asians is prolonged.
The horizontal roofs were part of the original project,
so their recalling pagodas is fortuitous...
Ramsay Casadesus Rawson
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