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| Fancy playing on a high trapeze? |
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| Welcome to Plaine Commune |
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FRENCH STADIUM, GENERALI, GREEN PRODUCE GARDENS, LUC BESSON, HIGH SPEED TRAIN STATION, A MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT CULUTRES, GRAND PARIS Fancy playing on a high trapeze? Quite a few companies on our territory participate financially in giving future circus artists higher education at the Fratellini Academy, an international circus school, located in Saint-Denis, in a beautiful building made of wood and certified High Environmental Quality (HEQ). Do you have a smile on your face? You are already part of us! After a long gestation period, Plaine Commune was born on the first of January, 2000, bringing together five municipalities so that together, they could be stronger. Today there are eight that make up the Plaine Commune population aggregate, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the Ile-de-France region, just on the other side of the ring road, north of Paris. Here are our cities: Aubervilliers, Epinay-sur-Seine, L’Île-Saint-Denis, La Courneuve, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Saint-Denis, Stains, Villetaneuse. This adds up to 42.7 square kilometres.
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| THE SAINT DENIS BASILICA, WORKING- CLASS IDENTITY, QUICK, ECONEIGHBOURHOODS, SFR, MULTIPLE POLES In yesteryear, we were Europe’s largest industrial zone. In 1970, we came close to becoming the largest industrial wasteland on the continent, as population was decreasing. Today, Plaine Commune proudly boasts the largest number of jobs created in the region. It produces the highest number of accommodations in Ile de France, and after Paris, is the second university pole. Its population has grown from 320,000 to 354,000 inhabitants in ten years. This was an uphill struggle. And it still is, in spite of strong projects breaking ground throughout the territory, such as that of City of the Cinema, or the Pleyel High-Speed Train Station. Some neighbourhoods here are amongst the poorest in France, in spite of the economic attraction for our territory which is proved every day. Why does this poverty still exist? Because it used to be deep and affect many people. And because our tradition of solidarity urges us to continue to open our arms to the extremely poor.
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| INTERNATIONAL LOBBYING, HIP-HOP MOTORWAYS, ZINGARO, DATA CENTRES, CREATIVE CLUSTERS, HEALTH CARE AGENCIES We are lucky to be supported by our working-class identity. Not for an illusory return back to where we came from. But to build a community where each person is recognised. A shared territory where each person finds a meaning for his life. A project of solidarity where collective identity is rebuilt using work. Just a dream? Not really. Faced with the world economic crisis, our utopia that we live day after day could be seen as a key to the future. Yes, it is possible to be the home to international companies and to be close to employees, Roma nomads, or illegal immigrants. Yes, it is possible to offer the best that culture and artistic creation can give to the working-class population. Yes, it is possible to integrate ecology into daily life. Plaine Commune has many construction sites, and you haven’t seen anything yet! Projects boosted by the Grand Paris idea will multiply. Transports have already begun their revolution. Tomorrow, research workers and tourists from all over the world will get off at the Pleyel high-speed train station to go to the French Stadium, visit the Saint-Denis Basilica, go shopping at the Millennium Shopping Centre in Aubervilliers on the Saint-Denis canal, or go to the National Archives in Pierrefitte. Come and see our parks, our artists, our cities! We have already experienced one miracle: Paris now takes us seriously! NATIONAL ARCHIVES, ALLOTMENT GARDENING, SUBURBS, WENZHOU, THE CONDORCET CAMPUS, IT’S GREAT TO LIVE HERE...
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