In Ivry, this evolving housing project adapts to life's changes. The 288 housing units of the START towers, by architect Beatriz Ramo, are modular.
In a desire to feminize public spaces, Philippe Bouyssou, the mayor (PCF) of the city, named the central square and its passages with the names of illustrious women. Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Austrian physicist who participated in the discovery of nuclear fission; Françoise Héritier (1933-2017), French anthropologist and ethnologist. Hélène Rouch (1937-2009), French biologist and feminist activist.