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Additional authors

1. Fernbach, David

Description

1. viii, 102 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. "Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. Take for example a small outlying district populated by Arabs, blacks and poor whites twenty years ago, the L'Olive neighbourhood north of La Chapelle The area is noted as pleasant, people frequent it and explore it, and as the rents are low some settle there. Others follow, first friends and then anyone else. Rents go up, buildings are renovated, bars open, then an organic food shop, a vegan restaurant ... The earlier indigenous inhabitants are driven out by the rising rents and settle further away, in Saint-Denis if they are lucky, or else in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Goussainville or God knows where. But new neighbourhoods are emerging, for example the Chinese quarter of Bas Belleville, which has grown since the 1970s to the point that in some streets, such as Rue Civiale or Rue Rampal, the restaurants and shops are all Chinese, with many Chinese sex workers on Boulevard de la Villette. These Chinese almost all come from Wenzhou, a large province south of Shanghai, whose inhabitants are reputedly known for their commercial skills. Paris is constantly changing as a living organism, both for better and for worse. This book is an incitement to open our eyes and lend an ear to the tumult of this incomparable capital, from the Périphérique to Place Vendôme, its markets of Aligre and Belleville, its cafés and tabacs, its history from Balzac to Sartre. In some thirty succinct vignettes, from bookshops to beggars, Art Nouveau to street sounds, Parisian writers to urban warts, Jacobins to Surrealism, Hazan offers a host of invaluable aperçus, illuminated by a matchless knowledge of his native city." --Publisher's website.

Uniform title

1. Tumulte de Paris. English

Alternative title

1. Tumulte de Paris.

Subject

1. City planning > France > Paris
2. Manners and customs
3. Working class
4. City planning
5. Paris (France) > History
6. Paris (France) > Social life and customs
7. France > Paris

Genre/Form

1. History.

Call number

1. JFD 23-1342

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

1. Translated from the French.

Author

1. Hazan, Éric, author.

Title

1. Paris in turmoil : a city between past and future / Éric Hazan ; translated by David Fernbach.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Verso, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

1. Translated from the French.

Added author

1. Fernbach, David, translator.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9781839764707

LCCN

1. 2022465257

ISBN

1. 183976466X (hardcover)
2. 9781839764660 (hardcover)
3. 9781839764707 (ePub ebook)

Research call number

1. JFD 23-1342