Pierre Vermeren, academic, is a normalien, associate and doctor in history. He is the author of several landmark books, including
On a cassé la République - 150 years of the nation's history
(ed. Tallandier, 2020) and
publishes L'inpasse de la métropolisation
(ed. Gallimard, coll. “Le Débat”, April 2021, 108 p., € 11).
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FIGAROVOX.
- Has the birth of large urban groups fostered the absence of “diversity”?
Pierre VERMEREN.
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It was certainly a first step, but in two stages.
The policy of collective housing and large housing estates was born in 1954, when post-war reconstruction (1953) ended.
This new policy lasts for a generation, until 1973. It is not a question of housing immigrants, as we repeat nowadays, but the French: there is a lack of three million housing units in 1954, and that tough.
Indeed, the French population is increasing because of the baby boom, the rural exodus is considerable during the 1950s and 1960s, and many French people
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