The France of the Little-Middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

by Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, et al.

Book Overview

The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the "Little-Middles" - a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789205204
• ISBN13: 9781789205206
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"