{"product_id":"9781804294048","title":"The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris","description":"Author: Tribillon, Justinien\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781804294048\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you want to understand Paris today you need to go beyond the palaces and boulevards and discover the \u003ci\u003ePerif\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eThe Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a walk around the Parisian edgelands. He shows how the city should be read from the outside inwards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can the history of a ring road tell the history of a city? Post-war Paris is the story of the Periferique, constructed in the aftermath of Word War Two to modernise the city. The ring road started as a dream of a new modern metropolis but soon became a dividing line- between inner and outer cities; between the bourgeois centre and the immigrant outskirts. Here the dividing line of the city, and of the nation, soon found their form within the liminal banlieu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Zone\u003c\/i\u003e is a subject for urbanists everywhere who are interested in social housing, social engineering, the consequences of immigration and riots. This book is \u003ci\u003eThe City of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e for Parisians. The site of dreams as well as the realities of \u003ci\u003eLa Haine\u003c\/i\u003e, the Zone so often misunderstood, is show to be the best way to understand modern Paris, and even France itself.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643221463198,"sku":"UBD-9781804294048","price":38.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781804294048.jpg?v=1774484526","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781804294048","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}