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To Be or Not To Be?
It is already a couple of years ago that I interviewed my former coworker Leeke Reinders (TU Delft) on municipal policy in the French suburbs. In 1998 and 2001, he carried out an anthropological research in Paris into the relation between the city inhabitants and the developed surroundings in Sarcelles, a suburb 15 kilometres north of Paris. He investigated how the developed space (the hard city) transformed into a by people lived and experienced city (the soft city). When I asked him about the…