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Socioeconomic and Urban Changes: Residents’ Perceptions and Public Policy in the Quatre-Chemins Neighborhood of Aubervilliers and Pantin (Greater Paris)

My geography dissertation focuses on the Quatre-Chemins neighborhood, which straddles two municipalities in the Seine-Saint-Denis department bordering Paris: Aubervilliers and Pantin. A working-class neighborhood with a history of industry and labor, it stands out as a unique case at the municipal level, both statistically and in public discourse. For the past twenty years or so, it has been shaped by contradictory socio-economic dynamics that combine, in particular, impoverishment and gentrification. I am thus interested in the social, economic, and urban transformations of this neighborhood and in how these are perceived, experienced, or implemented by both its residents and its municipal and intermunicipal public actors. The interface position of the Quatre-Chemins, a point of contact between Aubervilliers, Pantin, and Paris, allows me to offer an analysis that is both monographic and comparative, and to capture in detail the specificities and convergences in the diverse trajectories of this intermunicipal neighborhood. My research is based on statistical and cartographic analysis using National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) sub-municipal data (IRIS), on the one hand, and a qualitative study combining participant observation and semi-structured interviews, on the other.

Under the supervision of Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier and Beatriz Fernandez