A Fresh Look at Public Housing Projects in France

Using postcards, sociologist Renaud Epstein’s book On est bien arrivés offers a fresh look at France’s low-income housing projects.

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It was in 1994, at a bar-tobacco shop in the ZUP (Zone à Urbaniser en Priorité, Priority Urbanization Zone) des Trois Ponts in Roubaix, that sociologist Renaud Epstein first came across a postcard of a large housing project “lost among fad...

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