Suburban areas, lands of contrasts… Song and rap confirm the paradoxes of the recent Apur study: these unloved suburbs also have assets.
Last Wednesday, June 21, the Parisian Urban Planning Workshop – Apur – the finest expert tool in this area for Greater Paris, published a study with unexpected conclusions: the residential areas of large cities would be a tool planning for the future, with a view to adapting to climate change. And yet, for decades there have been many voices to vilify small companies, as in this famous song by Graeme Allwright who, in 1966, adapted an American folk classic by Malvina Reynolds into French.
And, for generations, pavilions have embodied many urban plagues. Sometimes even contrary wounds, moreover. Let’s compare Renaud in 1977 and Kery James in 2012.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news, airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Graeme Allwright, Small Boxes, 1966
Renaud, Farewell babe, 1977
Kery James, December 28, 1977, 2012
Renaud, Fight! 1980
Renaud, My garden gnome, 2002
Vald, Last withdrawal, 2019
Orelsan, In my city we hang out, 2017
Lefa at Youssoupha, Cash, 2021
Milk Coffee and Sugar, Alien, 2010
Enhancer, suburban suburbs, 2008
Liz Van Deuq, Suburban suburbs, 2018
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