2023-09-10 18:52:23
By Marie Bartnik
Published yesterday at 8:52 p.m., Updated yesterday at 9:57 p.m.
France has 1,500 commercial zones built on the outskirts of cities from the 1980s, such as in Witteheim (Haut-Rhin). Jean-François FREY/PHOTOPQR/L’ALSACE/MAXPPP
DECRYPTION – Olivia Grégoire and Christophe Béchu present this Monday their plan to transform peripheral commercial areas.
We are in the commercial area of the Pompadour crossroads, in Créteil, but we might just as easily be along the D19 in Bonneuil, a few kilometers further, or on the outskirts of Blois. “Shoe boxes”, these blind cladding buildings housing Decathlon, Action, Besson, Boulanger or Centrakor follow one another along the national 6 and in the gaps left by a dense network of roads. Each brand has its box, its entrance, its parking lot, built economically. Few or no trees, but signs and asphalt, a lot. In Pompadour, 85% to 95% of the soil is artificial. Neither Lake Créteil, located just to the east, nor Choisy Park, immediately to the west, are suspect for the customer who comes to do their shopping there.
The Pompadour crossroads is one of around 1,500 commercial zones that have mushroomed on the outskirts of cities since the 1980s, to the point of being singled out as an incarnation…
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