The lake at Evry is easily accessible by walking paths from the residential areas.

The blue area is public art that runs through the walking area, sometimes as a sculpture and sometimes as a painted walkway. 

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This is part of the sculpture portion of the blue area public art project.

The tall crane at left is a reminder that Evry was very much under construction in the mid-1970s.

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As construction of new housing proceeded in this part of Evry, so did the blue area public art project expand into new territory.

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This photograph indicates the immense scale at which French new towns were being built in the 1970s.

When completed, Evry was designed to accommodate 500,000 persons.

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