Zone non aedificandi
As a zone non Aedificandi one called the 250 m wide, covered with building ban and tree kept free zone around the 1,844 built Thiers'sche city walls of Paris . It was also known as the Zone militaire fortifiée or La Zone for short , and its inhabitants as Zonards .
The area extended in a ring around the city from the Boulevards des Maréchaux to the city limits. The construction ban corresponded to military considerations, i.e. the creation of a free field of fire in the event of a defense, i.e. a glacis . Towards the end of the 19th century, after the Thiers'sche fortification ring had become militarily insignificant, the construction of permanent buildings was not tolerated. An ill repute ring of slums ( slums , French bidonvilles ) formed.
From 1919 the outdated ramparts were razed and the building ban was lifted. Social housing for low-income Parisians, so-called HBM ( Habitations à bon marché ) , was built here on a large scale . Plans to create a contiguous green belt came to nothing. The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris was built in the 14th arrondissement around 1925 .
In the years 1954 to 1973 the ring road around Paris, the Boulevard Périphérique , was built in the former zone non aedificandi .
literature
- Jean-Louis Cohen (Ed.): Des Fortifs au Périf. 2nd edition Picard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7084-0467-9 [zugl. Catalog of the 1992 exhibition in the Pavillon de l'Arsenal, 4th Arrondissement (Paris) ].