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This pod-style structure was for a childcare center at Cergy-Pontoise. Note the design pattern in the walkway in the foreground. |
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This pod-style structure was for a childcare center at Cergy-Pontoise. Note the design pattern in the walkway in the foreground. |
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This was the playground at a childcare
center.
New towns are built on cheap land far from the expensive city center. The housing is mass-produced and thus relatively inexpensive. That makes the new towns attractive to young families of a progressive turn of mind. |
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Because everything in a new town is "new," architects are encouraged to design buildings in the more modern architectural styles. |
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This is a map of the future plans for Cergy-Pontoise as they existed in the early 1970s. The principal geographic feature of both the new town of Cergy and the old town of Pontoise is the graceful bend in the Oise River. |