Banlieue

Word BANLIEUE
Character 8
Hyphenation ban li eue
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Banlieue"

What do we mean by banlieue?

The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing

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The word "banlieue" in example sentences

Where’s your evidence? the tenth arrondissement, like the banlieue, is a particularly immigrant heavy part of the city, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, the tenth arrondissement, like the banlieue, is a particularly immigrant heavy part of the city, so the point that he’s cherry-picking would still stand, even if that is what he’s referring to. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the term banlieue simply reflect the idea of smaller towns concentrated around a main city. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The principal and most conspicuous urban problem is the so-called banishment of low-income and vulnerable populations from traditional residential areas to far-removed neighborhoods, sometimes to large complexes on the outskirts of major cities -- such as the French "banlieue," made infamous by the disturbances in recent years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That's not to say that my head is "in the sand," but living in central Paris, there has been no sign of the angered destruction taking place in the "banlieue" suburbs or in other parts of France -- until last night, when a car was burned in the Marais. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Where’s your evidence? the term banlieue simply reflect the idea of smaller towns concentrated around a main city. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A country with a large press section that blamed the recent World Cup performance on the bad attitude of the players whose origins are in the poor 'banlieue' or suburb areas, in a veiled attack at the players of immigrant origin ❋ Unknown (2010)

For some, the contrast reveals a failure in the government's approach to minorities in the troubled outskirts of its cities, the "banlieue". ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We need to plant some beauty where there it is now mostly ugliness," said Roland Castro whose team has tackled head-on the "banlieue" that exploded into rioting in November 2005 and have been marred in sporadic violence since. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The former is an OTT French zombie romp with the merest hint of a political subtext; perhaps the marauding mob of faceless flesh-eaters who descend upon an urban tower block are the dispossessed of the banlieue who once spawned such groundbreaking thrillers as Mathieu Kassovitz's La haine. ❋ Mark Kermode (2010)

Christie's Maurice de Vlaminck 'Paysage de banlieue' Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 in. ❋ Kelly Crow (2011)

The two are among 15 women from Sarcelles, a gritty banlieue, on a training programme overseen by the distinguished French chef Alain Ducasse. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Watching it back now – a gang of kids from the banlieue go on the rampage, terrorising the public for their own amusement – it seems eerily prescient of the London riots or at least the media panic surrounding them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Likewise, in Canada, in say Montreal, a banlieue looks like pretty much what you would find in a US suburb: shopping malls, poor public transit, highways, and big houses. daveNYC Says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shot by French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, children of Paris's banlieue the US equivalent of "the projects", The Ruins of Detroit tells the city's story through starkly stunning photos of abandoned ballrooms, dilapidated public libraries, vacant schools, decaying houses and devastated churches. ❋ Ronda Carman (2011)

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