The Paris Zone: A Cultural History, 1840-1944

by James Cannon

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032922575
• ISBN13: 9781032922577
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages