“Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation

Muriel Cohen & Cédric David & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-03-28T04:55:00Z

At a time of profound housing crisis in the 1950s, cités de transit were adopted as a means of rehousing Algerian families from cleared bidonvilles. The background of this measure – at the crossroads between colonial legacy, a long history of education through housing, and the Algerian War – explains the enduring stigma associated with it.
---- Series: How the Algerian War shaped French cities “Social rehabilitation projects”, “short-term housing”, “rehousing estates”, “virtual prisons”,

- Essays / bidonville, housing, cités de transit, Algerian War, shanty town, slum, transition estates

“Bidonvilles”: from colonial policy to the Algerian War

Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-03-21T07:07:58Z

The term bidonville (literally a town built of oil drums) originated in North Africa in the 1930s and came into use in mainland France in the 1950s to designate neighbourhoods composed of temporary, makeshift housing, particularly housing that accommodated Algerians. Here, Françoise de Barros shows that the management of these bidonvilles by the public authorities was situated at the crossroads between a colonial legacy and constraints associated with the Algerian War.
---- Series: How the

- Essays / bidonville, Nanterre, colonisation, local councillors, Algerian War, shanty town

Metropolitics

“Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation

“Bidonvilles”: from colonial policy to the Algerian War