The Flea Market of Marseille

Michèle Jolé & William Kornblum — 2016-05-17T05:00:00Z

Marseille's flea market (“marché aux puces”) lies at the heart of a vast urban renewal project that could end up wiping the market off the map for good. Michèle Jolé and William Kornblum, who have both adopted Marseille as their hometown, explore the loss that the transformation of this veritable institution would represent for the city's residents and, more generally, for the northern neighborhoods (“les Quartiers Nord”) of Marseille.
“The more we gain distance from the center, the more the

- From the Field / public space, urban renewal, market, Marseille, retail, commerce, informality, urban project

Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille's Housing Projects

William Kornblum — 2015-07-10T04:50:00Z

New York sociologist William Kornblum has brought back pictures of the Marseille Northern Housing Projects—the infamous “Quartiers Nord”—that dispute the stereotypes of urban chaos distributed by the media. He also takes a step toward an ecological contextualization of these neighborhoods in the general topography of this Mediterranean city.
La Visitation is a mid-size housing project (or cité) located in the hilly northern industrial neighborhoods of Marseille, France. From these

- From the Field / France, banlieue, housing projects, Marseille, visual sociology

Metropolitics

The Flea Market of Marseille

Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille's Housing Projects