banlieue
thumb| Sarcelles, ten miles to the north of Paris, is an example of a low-income banlieue. thumb|upright| Neuilly-sur-Seine, adjacent to Paris' sixteenth arrondissement, is an example of a high-income banlieue. In France, a '''''' (; ) is a suburb of a large city, or all its suburbs taken collectively. Banlieues are divided into autonomous administrative entities and do not constitute part of the city proper. For instance, 80percent of the inhabitants of the Paris metropolitan area live outside the city of Paris.
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16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Geography of the banlieues
- Paris
- Paris: Banlieues rouges
- Lyon and Marseille
- Crime and protests
- 1981 riots
- 2005 riots
- 2020 riots
- 2023 riots
- Filmography
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb| Sarcelles, ten miles to the north of Paris, is an example of a low-income banlieue. thumb|upright| Neuilly-sur-Seine, adjacent to Paris' sixteenth arrondissement, is an example of a high-income banlieue. In France, a '''' (; ) is a suburb of a large city, or all its suburbs taken collectively. Banlieues are divided into autonomous administrative entities and do not constitute part of the city proper. For instance, 80percent of the inhabitants of the Paris metropolitan area live outside the city of Paris.
Beginning in the 1970s, the term has taken on a particular connotation, becoming a popular word for economically-deprived suburbs featuring low-income housing projects (HLMs) that are home to large immigrant populations. People of foreign descent reside in what are often called poverty traps. , in France, approximately 1,500 suburbs are home to more than 5 million people.