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The Tours Aillaud (French pronunciation: [tuʁ ajo]; also known as Tours Nuages [tuʁ nɥaʒ]) is a group of residential buildings located in Nanterre, in the inner suburbs of Paris, France. Built in 1976 at the outskirts of La Défense business district, the Tours Aillaud are named after their main architect, Emile Aillaud. The housing project ...
No. Region Home ownership rate(%) Date [2] [3]; 1 Kazakhstan 98: 2024 2 China 96: 2022 3 Laos 95.9: 2015 4 Romania 95.6: 2023 5 Albania 95.3: 2023 6 Slovakia 93.6: 2023 7 Russia 92.60
France has a long tradition of social and state intervention in the provision of housing. In 1775, the Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans was built with a part dedicated to house workers. [1] In the 19th century the cités ouvrières (company towns) appeared, inspired by the Phalanstère of Charles Fourier. [2]
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Tours is located between two rivers, the Loire to the north and the Cher to the south. The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate (called Ardoise) roofs; this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs. Tours is famous for its original medieval district, called le Vieux Tours.
The idea of an association to gather the most beautiful villages of France was born in Collonges-la-Rouge, Corrèze in 1981. Charles Ceyrac, mayor of the village, was inspired by a Reader's Digest book entitled Les Plus Beaux Villages de France which included pictures of Collonges. He decided to launch an association that would unite villages ...
Tours Métropole Val de Loire (French pronunciation: [tuʁ metʁɔpɔl val də lwaʁ]) is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, centered on the city of Tours. It is located in the Indre-et-Loire department, in the Centre-Val de Loire region, central France. It was created on 20 March 2017, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine Tour(S ...
The community lives in a Compagnon house known as a cayenne and managed by a mère (mother) or maîtresse (mistress), a woman who looks after the well-being of the residents, [1] of which there are more than 80 in France. The houses vary in size from a small house for five people to a larger one with more than 100 people living together.