OLYMPICS 097


and 200,000 new street trees. Parisians grumbled about all the upheaval while it was all being created, but then they are always grumbling about something. Yet the streets were cleaned and buildings refurbished. However, go to France 93, the département of Seine-Saint-Denis – a 90-square mile department that encompasses 40 towns, a working class suburb of Paris, a place known for poverty and the worst levels of crime, and a place where all the previous big plans have failed; one of the most deprived regions of the country with the highest levels of unemployment, and a place to avoid – and you see something that really is different. It was home to the Olympic Village, and this will all become social housing incorporated with a whole range of other facilities that will reinvigorate the area. It sits at the intersection of three banlieue towns: Saint-Ouen, Saint- Denis and L’Île-Saint-Denis. Te village appears like a multi-coloured forest, with 40 buildings rising in different hues and designs.


Starting in November, after housing 14,500 athletes, its 2,800 new units will be converted by the end of 2025 to permanent homes for up to 6,000 people. Tere will be 2,800 new housing units with 2,000 family homes and 800 residential units, all of which are accessible for people with reduced mobility. A quarter of those units will be reserved for public housing. Around a third will be rented out by government-linked agencies as affordable housing to modest-income workers, as well as to students. Te rest will be sold on the open market. Plus there is a new residential student building, a hotel, two new schools, 3,200m2 shops, 120,000m2


of neighbourhood of offices and other business


premises, six hectares of green spaces including a public park at the centre of the neighbourhood, and so it goes on. A total of 8,876 trees have been planted.


Tere was one major construction project for the Games, and it too was built in France 93: it was the Olympic aquatics centre,


RIGHT AND ABOVE: PARIS 2024


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