The Zone
About This Book
Justinien Tribillon argues that modern Paris is best understood from its edges, not its palaces and boulevards. The Zone is a history of the city after the Second World War, and it asks how the story of a single ring road can tell the story of a whole city. That road is the Periferique, built in the years after the war to modernise Paris. It began as a vision of a new, modern metropolis. It soon became a dividing line between the inner and outer city, and between the bourgeois centre and the immigrant outskirts. Tribillon takes the reader on a walk around these Parisian edgelands. The line that split the city, and in some ways the nation, took its clearest shape in the liminal space of the banlieue. This is the Zone so often misunderstood, a place of dreams as well as the harsh realities depicted in the film La Haine. The book presents it as the key to understanding modern Paris and even France itself. The book speaks to urbanists and to anyone interested in social housing, social engineering, the consequences of immigration and urban riots. The publisher describes it as the City of Quartz for Parisians.
ISBN: 9781804294048
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