Bobigny, France, Europe
Year 1969 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 44,000 Target population Town website Town related links http://www.bobigny.fr/bobigny/jsp/site/Portal.jsp http://www.robertbermangallery.com/Pages/Fichou/FichouPages/FichouBio.htm Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
In Bobigny, norteast of the inner city of Paris, end station of the orange metro line, buildings are shaped like giant cylinders, stars and unfurled ribbons. The neighbourhood is bordered by small single-family houses. Green spaces, stores, community services and businesses to employ some of the local people were implemented from the beginning. The 'grand ensemble' was built in haste with mass production methods. source: http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001971/Downie/Downie09/Downie09.html
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