The suburbs, what suburbs? Let’s discuss it with Emmanuel Bellanger and Gérôme Truc | EUROtoday

Today a bit poetry in Parlons: “The shape of a city changes faster than the heart of mortals”. At the time when Charles Baudelaire wrote these phrases, the city started to cowl the outskirts of cities, an industrial revolution obliges. The suburbs, or the suburbs, are sometimes caricatured territories that are solely questioned in our newspapers when they’re shaken by episodes of violence. At the Museum of the History of Immigration, the exhibition entitled Béliees darling, deconstructs the clichés. The suburbs, what suburbs? Let’s discuss it with Emmanuel Bellanger, historian and member of the scientific committee of the exhibition “Bouliees Chéries” on the Museum of the History of Immigration and Gérôme Truc, sociologist at CNRS and Co-author, with Fabrice Truong, giant complexes: violence, solidarity and emotions in standard neighborhoods (La Découverte, 2025).
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