La Défense represents a modern CBD with many tall buildings, which has been developed since the 1950s outside of the limits of the city of Paris. The 111 m high Grande Arche was constructed in the 1980s in one line with the Arc de Triomphe and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

Keywords

(post)modernism, administration, capitalism, nightscape, square, urban arts, urban life

Created

Saturday 24 August 2013 by Martin Mergili in Europe / France (3280 visits)