#cités

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59 NORD GRANDE SYNTHE La ville nouvelle ds le rétro des années 80 Au 1er janvier 2024 , Grande-Synthe est catégorisée grand centre urbain, selon la nouvelle grille communale de densité à sept niveaux définie par l'Insee en 2022. Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Dunkerque, une agglomération intra-départementale regroupant huit communes, dont elle est une commune de la banlieue.

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Dans les recoins les plus isolés et reculés de nos grandes cités vivent de pauvres âmes qui n’ont plus de vie ni de visage, ils sont là, invisibles, pâles fantômes oubliés de tous, condamnés à l’errance, privés d’existence et de droit de cité…

V. H. SCORP

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Le gardien qui ne fait pas de quartier - Jean-Marie PARIS - 2023 - Ed. Et le bruit de ses talons

Quatrième de couverture La Cité des Oiseaux, un grand ensemble de la région parisienne composé de barres de logements sociaux. Un quartier où les habitants sont pauvres, où la vie quotidienne n’est pas toujours facile. C’est là que vit Mohamed, il est le gardien de la cité. Il est apprécié par les habitants, qui le surnomment Momo. C’est un employé sérieux et impliqué de l’Office Hlm, toujours…

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Grigny, quartier de la Grande-Borne.

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Girl with milk bottle, Cité Lesage Bullourde, Paris, 1950 - by Marilyn Stafford (1925 - 2023), English

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City of Fire - art by Mœbius and Geof Darrow (1985)

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LA CITÉ DES ENFANTS PERDUS (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, 1995)

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Scottish Folk Tales and Legends

Artist : Nika Goltz (1925-2012)

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"Unité d’Habitation / La Cité Radieuse", 280 Boulevard  Michelet, 13008, Marseille, France [1947-52] _ Architect: Le Corbusier _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [25.05.2024].

"The building takes the form of a housing bar 135 metres long, 24 metres wide, 56 metres high and mounted on stilts. Three hundred and thirty apartments, divided into twenty-three different types, can accommodate a population of between 1,500 and 1,700 occupants having at their disposal on the seventh and eighth floors a shopping street and a hotel-restaurant, together with a kindergarten and sports facilities on the roof terrace. The constructive principle adopted, the so-called “bottle rack”, consists in building apartments inside an independent frame of posts and reinforced concrete beams. The apartments are made up of standard elements assembled on the site. All the apartments are dual-aspect, except those on the south side. A sun-break loggia provides an open-air facility at the same time as limiting exposure to sunlight. Protected by double glazing, the apartment interiors are subject to the two basic rules of naval and monastic architecture: rationalism and simplicity. The living room, open on two levels, is the nucleus of the family “home”; upstairs the parents’ room occupies the mezzanine. The kitchen is equipped like a laboratory: electric cooker, refrigerator, rubbish chute and storage racks. The entire apartment is fitted with racks replacing traditional storage. The ventilation of the kitchen, bathroom and toilets is mechanically operated, while the entire apartment is supplied with clean air by an air conditioning system. These facilities were not found in the low-cost collective housing units of the time, and the standard surface areas of the Unité d’Habitation are greater than these by between 40% and 50%. The seventeen-storeys below the terrace are connected by eight interior streets which, given the overlap of the two-storey apartments, each serve three floors. Each street is accessed by a battery of four elevators complemented by a service elevator and three emergency staircases. The entire building and its equipment are designed in terms of the Modulor, the universal measuring unit conceived by Le Corbusier."

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Twisted Wonderland background edit~ La cité des Fleurs

Well can't be help... I'm french after all (noooo I am not doing favoritisme....)..... and the US fandom finally got the event, yay!!! Enjoy "Glorious Masquerade"!! I was.... super into those edits ha ha!! (wanted to add the Eiffel Tower...but meh...nope too far from "NBC"), enjoy some edit street with a secret Ténèbre shop with a DC collection "prêt-à-porter" instead~ Also ...thanks a lot to the twiwon staff team.... they added red geranium in those background........ for us frenchies.....it's truly important being part of our history, very heart warming and much more.... I mean it ....thank you!!!

.....let me catch everyone on tumblr ha ha!! I am so slow...

Bg asset extracted by @alchemivich

edit and concept by me

[memoire2cite]

51 100 MARNE Le quartier d’Orgeval, ds le rétro 1965 à 1978 , de l'Office public d’HLM de Reims https://www.orgevalreims.org/?cat=228

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Photo originale par Steph-Photo

Carcassonne, un paradis de perspectives, de teintes et de lumières !

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Many people have talked about the Japanese influence of the Little Nightmares game - more precisely how the games offered themselves as a nightmarish and twisted Ghibli movie, what Miyazaki would have created for a Silent Hill game.

But I don't see many people talk about the French style and influence of the games...

Yes, I said French. It might surprise you, but one of the main sources for the aesthetic and tone of the games is a set of French works. The creators of Little Nightmares have been pretty clear in interviews that the movies of Jean-Pierre Jeunet were a big design and concept influence for the game. Now, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is most famous for his slightly absurd romance-comedy Amélie Poulain... But it was his two other most famous movies that inspired the Little Nightmares world.

On one side: Delicatessen

In a post-apocalyptic world, a building stands alone in the middle of the ruins of a city... A block of flats, each one hosting weird and excentric people: a tenant lives in water-filled rooms infested with snails and frogs, another keeps trying to kill herself with incredibly complex and extravagant suicide plans, others are dedicated creators of moo boxes... But all of them live under the domination and tyrany of the butcher whose shop is located at the base of the building: he is the one who provides the meat for all those who live above him, and thus has full authority over them, and nobody asks where it comes from...

One day, a new janitor arrives. A naive former circus clown, a gentle but farcical man who soon falls in love with the shy and secluded musician-daughter of the butcher. Unfortunately, it proves to be an actual fairytale as the janitor didn't just fell in love with a princess high up in her tower... but with the daughter of the ogre, for all the janitors before our protagonist mysteriously disappeared right with every new "meat supplies" delivery... The sweet and touching budding romance of these two youths in a no man's land soon turns into horror as the shadow of the butcher's cleaver falls upon them, and as the madness of the buildings' tenants keep increasing to absurd levels.

And what seems to be the couple's only hope? A secret network of sewer-dwelling, vegetarian terrorists that the butcher's daughter contacts in secret...

On the other side: La cité des enfants perdus

While Delicatessen was a dark comedy (or an humoristic horror, depending on which side you take it), The City of Lost Children is much harder to categorize as Jeunet (and Marc Caro, who also co-created Delicatessen) fully delve into the urban nightmare, the obscure poetry, the dark fairytale, the disturbing children story.

La Cité des Enfants perdus is the story of a mad scientist who lives in a derelict oil platform at sea, surrounded by various "failed" experiments (idiotic clones, a dwarf-wife, a brain in a jar). Unable to dream, he decides to capture the children of the nearest portuary town, in order to steal their dreams for himself - and he performs these crimes with the help of a strange cult of one eyed men referred to as the "cyclops".

One day, the scientist kidnaps the little brother of a simple-minded former circus strongman called "One". Determined to find him back, One teams up with miette (Crumb), a clever and cynical street-urchin girl ; however, their quest to find the secret of the Cyclops is made even more complicated by the presence of the Pieuvre (Octopus), cruel and greedy conjoined twins who are the boss of the children-thief network Miette belonged to, and hatch nefarious plans in light of the recent events...

In a way you could say that Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a sort of French Terry Gilliam. He has a very unique and distinctive style when it comes to his movies, something halway between a realistic Guillermo del Toro and a dirty Wes Anderson. His movies are still to this day a weir, but cult, part of French cinema.

And... Little Nightmares borrowed heavily from them. The large One and the little girl Crumb teaming up to save a child from a sea-dwelling villain becomes Six fighting for her life in the sea-faring Maw against the Lady. The butchering cannibalism of Delicatessen can be found back ; the water-infested flat of the elderly frog-raiser can evoke the Granny's quarters, while the strange suicide plans of the depressed tenant evoke the various "puzzles" of the game. The school run by the Octopus (stern school-teachers by day, vicious crime-lords at night) brings back to mind the school of Little Nightmares 2, and so forth and so on. Plus, of course, the strange technology: these two movies thrive on weird contraptions and strange buildings and never-ending pipes and other bizarre soul-sucking machinery, all elements that were very determinant in the visuals of the Little Nightmares universe.

If you ever wondered what a Little Nightmares movie would feel like... These movies could be of some help. Do yourself a marathon of Ghibli movies and Terry Gilliam ones intercut with Jeunet's pieces, and you could recreate yourself a strange Little Nightmares-flavored experience.

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Bagnols-sur-Cèze.

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photographer Maty Chevrière.

The idea of the photo shoot “La cité des femmes” was to create a lovely environment between four girls that didn´t know each other and made them feel like they had been friends for years, empowering them and making them feel comfortable in their own skin. Starring the muses Carla Guetta, Aracely Navarro, Jessica Kate Dias and Lisa Herzog Make up by Mechi Velasques.

Commissioned by Ladio Studios. Shot on location @ Soho House Barcelona, 2018