Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Region (s)	Île-de-France
Department (s)	Yvelines
Establishment date	January 1, 2016
legal form	Communauté d'agglomération
Communities	12
president	Michel Laugier
SIREN number	200 058 782
surface	119.42 km²
Residents	228,052 (2015)
Population density	1,910 inhabitants / km²
Website	http://www.saint-quentin-en-yvelines.fr
Location of the association of municipalities in the Île-de-France region

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (pronounced [sɛ.kɑ.tɛ.ɑn‿iv.lin] ) is a scale in the 1970s "New City" ( Ville nouvelle ) in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France , around 30 km southwest of Paris . Since 2004 it has had the legal form of a communauté d'agglomération . It got its current layout with effect from January 1, 2016 through a merger with a neighboring community association. Since then it has comprised twelve parishes. The administrative headquarters are in Montigny-le-Bretonneux . The population is about 230,000

Historical development

The association of municipalities goes back to the establishment of the Ville nouvelle Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in 1972. In the 1960s, it was decided to set up several such planned cities in the outskirts of Paris ( Banlieue ) in order to remedy the overpopulation of the capital and its immediate suburbs. The church of Saint-Quentin-les-sources in the municipality of Montigny-le-Bretonneux, dedicated to Saint Quintinus , was chosen as the center of the new town . The name of the new city and the association of municipalities is derived from this. Until then, the associated communities had only been small villages, the population of which rose sharply in the 1970s thanks to the new large housing estates (from a total of 24,866 in 1968 to 93,906 in 1982). Most of the apartments were HLM ( Habitations à loyer modéré , French equivalent of social housing ). Single-family houses made up 25 percent of the new residential buildings, the lowest proportion of the five Villes nouvelles around Paris.

Thereafter, there were several changes in the organizational structure, until a Syndicat d'agglomération nouvelle (SAN) was formed in 1984 , from which a Communauté d'agglomération finally emerged with effect from January 1, 2004 .

On January 1, 2016, the association of municipalities merged with the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Parisien (with 3 municipalities), two further municipalities ( Coignières and Maurepas ) also joined the association. On this occasion, the corporation was re-established under an almost identical name.

Member municipalities

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Coignières	4,394	8.20	536	78168	78310
Élancourt	25,400	9.79	2,594	78208	78990
Guyancourt	28,633	13.00	2,203	78297	78280
La Verrière	6,715	1.77	3,794	78644	78320
Les Clayes-sous-Bois	17,636	6.11	2,886	78165	78340
Magny-les-Hameaux	9,327	16.64	561	78356	78114
Maurepas	18,281	8.31	2,200	78383	78310
Montigny-le-Bretonneux	32,929	10.67	3,086	78423	78180
Plaisir	31,419	18.68	1,682	78490	78370
Trappes	32,584	13.47	2,419	78621	78190
Villepreux	10,947	10.40	1,053	78674	78450
Voisins-le-Bretonneux	11,088	2.38	4,659	78688	78960
Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	228.052	119.42	1.910	-	-

Ville nouvelle Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Attractions

In the 1980s, the Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill built two of his well-known postmodern residential complexes here:

• 1982: Les Arcades du Lac and viaduct
• 1986: Les Temples du Lac

Transport links

Stop at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines train station of the same name. a. Trains on the Paris RER line C , the Transilien line U (La Défense) and the Transilien line N (Paris-Montparnasse).

Sports

In Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines there is the Vélodrome National , a sports hall with a cycle track . The 2015 UCI Track World Championships were held in the hall.

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines has been the start and finish point of the Brevet (bicycle marathon) Paris – Brest – Paris since 1991 .

The golf course Le Golf National , which was built in 1990, will host the 42nd Ryder Cup in 2018 .

education

Several faculties of the University of Versailles (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, UVSQ) are based in Saint-Quentin.

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1. ^ The association of municipalities on www.insee.fr, the INSEE website .
2. ↑ CA Saint Quentin en Yvelines (SIREN: 200 058 782) in the Base nationale sur l'intercommunalité (BANATIC) of the French Ministry of the Interior (French)
3. ↑ James M. Rubenstein: The French New Towns. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, p. 131.

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '  N , 2 ° 3'  E