250px|Example of a low-income banlieue Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine 250px|Example of a high-income banlieue Neuilly-sur-Seine In France, a banlieue (; ) is a suburb of a large city. Banlieues are divided into autonomous administrative entities and do not constitute part of the city proper. For instance, 80\% of the inhabitants of the Paris Metropolitan Area live outside the city of Paris. Like the city centre, suburbs may be rich, middle-class, or poor—Versailles, Le Vésinet, Sceaux, Maisons-Laffitte and Neuilly-sur-Seine are affluent banlieues of Paris, while Clichy-sous-Bois, Bondy and Corbeil-Essonnes are less so. However, since the 1970s, banlieues has taken on an additional meaning in French of France, becoming a popular word for low-income housing projects (HLMs) in which many French of foreign descent reside, in what are often called poverty traps.Lepoutre, David. Coeur de banlieue: codes, rites, et langages. Odile Jacob, 1997.
250px|Example of a high-income banlieue Neuilly-sur-Seine 250px|Example of a low-income banlieue Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine In France, a banlieue (; ) is a suburb of a large city. Banlieues are divided into autonomous administrative entities and do not constitute part of the city proper. For instance, 80\% of the inhabitants of the Paris Metropolitan Area live outside the city of Paris. Like the city centre, suburbs may be rich, middle-class, or poor—Versailles, Le Vésinet, Sceaux, Maisons-Laffitte and Neuilly-sur-Seine are affluent banlieues of Paris, while Clichy-sous-Bois, Bondy and Corbeil-Essonnes are less so. However, since the 1970s, banlieues has taken on an additional meaning in French of France, becoming a popular word for low-income housing projects (HLMs) in which many French of foreign descent reside, in what are often called poverty traps.Lepoutre, David. Coeur de banlieue: codes, rites, et langages. Odile Jacob, 1997.
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