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Here's the money quote from the article link I posted:
It's not just that the uniform 17-story concrete towers of these satellite cites are hopeless and powerfully dehumanizing. It's that the projects are separated from the rest of France, physically segregated, which makes personal assimilation impossible, and fosters a kind of self-contained anti-society. Along with cultural tensions and religious differences, you have to wonder how much France is suffering from the effects of visionary modernist planning.
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