![]() ![]() Utopia is an American sci-fi drama television series. La Defénse isn’t the only district marked by its past and its rapid modernization.Utopia Season 2 Release Date, Cast, Plot – All We Know So Far Well at least they feel unsafe after 8 or 9 o'clock at night. I have co-workers who are women and they're very afraid. It's true that I never felt very comfortable. Now it's nowhere near that but I've been alone in the metro with gangs of pretty tough young men and sometimes they'd shout at me. You can end up alone on a platform with “gangs” and of course I've been told about the gang wars in the square in front of La Défense, but that was almost 20 years ago. But when I started working there it's true that at night when you get back on the subway or the RER and it's absolutely empty. I didn't have any negative apprehension about La Défense and safety there. For Franck, who moved to Paris to work in La Défense, the area has really improved but the rumors of its past still influenced the way he felt about it. So different from the Paris she knew as a kid. That's why it gives me this impression of being dehumanized.įor Alice, La Défense was both attractive in all its newness and worrying for how impersonal and empty it becomes. Those high rises are faceless, there's no balcony, the windows are often opaque, you can't see what goes on inside. It's very dehumanized, especially at night. There's this place underground, and then there's the La Défense square, where no one lives, it's only offices and it's only people working there and so there's no one to hear from their windows. You might not be able to call someone for help because there's no one. You can meet the wrong kind of person and here's no way out. I don't know if you've seen this movie called "Irréversible" by Gaspard Noé? In a nutshell it's a horrible movie where a woman gets raped in a tunnel below the street. Back then it was kind of sketchy There were high rises, tunnels and dark places at night. We'd gone to La Défense when it starts to be dodgy. ![]() It must have been at the beginning of the 90s. I remember one time, one of my friend's mothers was really angry because we'd gone to La Défense without telling her. “En fait je me souviens par exemple d’une fois où…” As a teenager, Alice was told to stay away from La Défense but it became a thrilling but terrifying playground for her and her friends. However, the idea of a district where no one lived, that was completely abandoned after working hours lead some to feel insecure there. It’s impossible to walk the city streets and not be neck deep in the fragments of ideal cities dreamed up by emperors, artists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and most importantly, citizens. Utopias of morality, technology, health, and much more… Plans for the aristocracy, for the poor, for police, for immigrants and on and on and on. So it will come as no surprise to you that Paris, a city that is roughly two thousand years old, has had many many many plans for urban utopias. Okay, so last episode we left off talking about Grand Paris, the plan to breach the urban borders of the city and unit Paris with its surrounding banlieue through huge infrastructure projects. So we'll proceed business as usual and see what happens. Okay, you might notice that I have a bit of a deeper baritone in this episode. ![]()
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