They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.
Industrial revolution
Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
1946 to 1970 is "les trente glorieuses", the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.
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arymandias@feddit.de · 13 pts · 2y
Interesting that you can still see the effects of WWI in the north.
demonquark@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
I’m reading this as housing boom in the 70’s and 80’s, Paris needs new housing, and people are moving to the west.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
There's nowhere to put new housing in Paris though.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
maybe on top of the old one or under!
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
They do have catacombs. They could build a city under the city, with multiple levrls of streets!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
We already did : https://www.ratp.fr/plan-metro
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
It's all graveyard under there though.
alex@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 2y
Paris doesn't need new housing, it just needs to keep upgrading its existing apartments :)
Otherwise yes sounds right.
ahugenerd@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Unequal bins lead me to wonder if they were cherry picked to tell a specific story. #howToLieWithMaps101
alex@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 2y
They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.
ahugenerd@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Then they should be labeled to reflect that.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
1946-1970 appears to be high density housing. 20% and just small squares peppered around urban centers.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
That seems to scan; perhaps it's the rebuilding of bombed cities in WW2
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Makes sense, there's no more land.