Capital cities: too powerful, too arrogant?
Audio 48:30
Paris and its inhabitants: contemptuous, without embarrassment, rich?
AFP - ERIC FEFERBERG
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
49 mins
Paris and its inhabitants are often associated with pejorative adjectives: contemptuous, without genes, rich ... The hyper-concentration of economic, political, cultural, infrastructure, or even investment powers accentuate the resentment of the rest of the population. with regard to Parisians.
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But since the pandemic, Paris could well find itself abandoned, in favor of medium-sized cities, more livable, less expensive.
Is Paris a unique case?
Why seek to strengthen the attractiveness of metropolises more and more?
This show is a rerun of April 20, 2021
With :
Olivier Razemon
, journalist specializing in mobility and town planning issues, author of
Les Parisiens, une obsession française - anatomie d'un déséquilibre
(Éditions Rue de l'Eglise).
A focus with
Pascal Thibaut
, our correspondent in Germany on the city of Berlin.
A focus with
François Hume-Ferkatadji
, correspondent in Ivory Coast on the city of Abidjan.
Musical programming:
► Oxmo Puccino -
Pam pa nam
► Gael Faye -
Paris Métèque.
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