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Vieux-Lille
Vieux-Lille (Old Lille) is a district in the north of Lille. It is the district with the most pre-19th-century buildings. It still boasts many cobbled streets and traces of the canals that crisscrossed the city in centuries gone by. It is home to 20,000 inhabitants. General Until the World War I, First World War, Vieux-Lille was the name given to the part of the city that predated the 1858 expansion, i.e., the area bordered to the west by Boulevard de la Liberté and to the south by Boulevard Louis XIV. During the World War I, First World War, the area around Rue de Béthune, the railway station, and Rue du Molinel was destroyed, and the Palais Rihour (18th-19th centuries) burned down. The destroyed areas were rebuilt in the style of the 1930s: Art Deco around rue du Molinel, neo-regionalist on rue Faidherbe and rue de Béthune. In the 1960s and 1970s, the destruction of the working-class Saint-Sauveur district left Vieux-Lille as the last remaining example of the city's Pre-ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Du Général-de-Gaulle (Lille)
Place du Général-de-Gaulle is an urban public space situated in the commune of Lille, Hauts-de-France region. It is the town's historic main square. It has a grand-place style, which is typical of many cities in the former Netherlands. Until the 21st century, the square was considered to be part of the Forum mentioned in the 1066 foundation act of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre Lille, collegiate church of Saint-Pierre. It is believed to have originated in the 14th century when the town's aldermen decided to turn it into a market. The Deûle was River engineering, canalized, the ground gradually raised by Embankment dam, embankments, then paved to create a market square. In the 17th century, the construction of the Vieille Bourse divided the square into Grand-Place and Petite-Place (now Place du Théâtre). After the Lille during World War II, liberation of Lille during World War II, the square was renamed in honor of Charles de Gaulle. The square is known locally as "Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegiate Church Of Saint-Pierre Lille
The collegiate church of Saint-Pierre was once a large church located in Vieux-Lille, and for almost 750 years it set the pace for Lille's religious life. Seriously damaged during the Austrian siege of 1792, its destruction began in 1794. Its crypt, the only remaining vestige, was listed as a historic monument in 1971. Location The collegiate church stood on the site of today's Palais de Justice. History The beginnings The first mention of this collegiate church dates back to an endowment charter dated 1066, which provides information on the châtellenie of the time. Under this charter, Count Baldwin V of Flanders granted the collegiate a quarter of the former Carolingian castrum, a farm in Flers, and two-thirds of the revenues of the Annapes church; a chapter of canons was also created. His cloister extended northwest from the collegiate church, on the site of today's Place du Concert, to the Quai de la Basse Deûle (today's Avenue du Peuple Belge). After his death, the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, and the main city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 236,234 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over , had a population of 1,515,061 that same year (January 2020 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The city of Lille and 94 suburban French municipalities have formed since 2015 the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rue Esquermoise
Rue Esquermoise is a street in Lille. Location and access Located in the Lille-Centre district, it links Place du Général-de-Gaulle with Rue Royale and Rue de la Barre. From Place du Général de Gaulle, Rue Esquermoise crosses, on the left, the rue Saint-Etienne pedestrian street, on the right rue des Débris Saint-Etienne, named after the former church of Saint-Etienne, destroyed during the siege of Lille in 1792, on the left rue des Poissonceaux, named after the former Poissonceaux canal, covered over in 1877, parallel to the street to the south, on the right rue Basse, on the left rue Thiers, on the right rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the former refuge street of Loos Abbey. It continues into Rue de la Barre to the southwest (the start of the old route de Dunkerque) and Rue Royale, one of the main thoroughfares in the district created when Vauban enlarged the town in 1670. A passageway opened after 2005 on the first floor of a house facing Rue Thiers allows pedestrians and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentrification
Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more Wealth, affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment. There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification. In public discourse, it has been used to describe a wide array of phenomena, sometimes in a pejorative connotation. Gentrification is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and urban planning, planning. Gentrification often increases the Value (economics), economic value of a neighborhood, but can be controversial due to changing Demography, demographic composition and potential displacement of incumbent residents. Gentrification is more likely when there is an undersupply of housing and rising home values in a metropolitan area. The gentrification process is typically the result of increasing attraction to an area by people with higher incomes spilling over from neighboring cities, towns, or neighborhoods. Further steps are increased Socially responsib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities In France
, there were 473 communes in France ( metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000.Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019 INSEE All figures reflect the municipal population (), meaning people who have their usual residence in the commune,INSEE [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Lille
Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). ''Primitive Culture''. Vol 1. New York: J. P. Putnam's Son Culture often originates from or is attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
