When you look further than its Puces, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, in Seine-Saint-Denis, reveals three atmospheres to urban walkers. Sectors experiencing real estate boom, setting the pace for the city’s transformations. A formerly industrial suburb which attracts Parisians and artists in search of space, a trend accelerated by the extension of line 14 of the metro, in addition to the 13 or the RER C. And a town where certain neighborhoods have the feel of a village where the working-class past emerges.
Collective gardening and gourmet market
“From the past, let’s make a clean slate. » In the former communist stronghold, the words of The International are not to be taken literally. Despite appearances, the new Docks eco-district has not erased everything. Certainly, the 100 hectares along the Seine have seen buildings sprout up over the past ten years in place of industrial wastelands and warehouses. But the names of the streets provide historical references. Like that of the Hippodrome, indicating that the 12-hectare Grand Parc, inaugurated in 2013, was a racecourse from 1880 to the First World War. It then welcomed worker vegetable gardens, which have now become “the island of sharing”, a collective gardening area with “zero pesticides”.
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