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The Failure of France's Urban Policy?

Posted by: Chris Steins

8 November 2005 - 5:00am

'Structural problems' with France's urban policies, wed with 'long-term neglect of the country's impoverished suburbs,' is being blamed for the gradually intensifying, and now international, riots.

"According to many French analysts, the worst wave of urban violence for many decades is a damning indictment of government initiatives.

...In the late 1990s, for instance, the then Socialist-led government launched initiatives like 50 Great City Projects and 30 Urban Renewal Operations.

Since 2002, the centre-right government has continued with this approach, demolishing high-rise blocks with gusto and investing heavily in new buildings."

Full Story: France's city policy in tatters
Source: BBC, November 7, 2005
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