“
80% of the French want pavilions; large housing estates are schools of crime
”, proclaims Jacques Rueff in 1963 in
Le Figaro Littéraire
. The economist, champion of liberalism, then presented a report from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, of which he was a member. The large complexes, which “
are victories against the insanitary islets, the slums, the garrisoned
”, he admits, did not bring with them the necessary infrastructures. They have failed to "
become that living stain that is a city
" only to turn into hotbeds of crime. The French want pavilions, why not give them freedom of choice?
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The pavilion is "
ugly
", say the architects, traumatized by the extension of the suburbs of Paris.
Sociologists are worried about the propensity of workers to adopt this petty-bourgeois ideal already acclaimed by 72% of the French
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