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participated in the creation of the garden city, there were two notable women: town planner Berthe
Leymarie (born in 1876), the then director of the HBM and a 'visiting nurse' who defended a thesis on the subject in 1923 and worked particularly in the social aspect of these sets, as well as Georgette Le Campion, commonly called GĂ©o (born in 1880), graduate of the
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FĂ©lix Dumail and LĂ©on Bazin rebuilt housing and enlarged the city after the Second World War. Shower and bath were thus generalized after 1948. The city was definitively completed in 1956, completing the 8th and 9th sections of apartment buildings provided for in the initial project. The garden city
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As of 2021, the city was the largest group of social housing in the commune of
Suresnes (more than 3000). The rehabilitation undertaken between 1985 and 1996, at the initiative of Christian Dupuy, mayor of Suresnes since 1983, made it possible to bring the apartments up to current standards and
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place of worship. In 1954, the
Protestant temple of Suresnes in avenue d'Estournelles de Constant was built in stone, replacing a wooden hut built in 1947. Squares planted with trees and carpeted with lawns are located in the center of the main islets of the garden city. In the center, the
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commune. The project provided for the coexistence of four-storey apartment buildings and individual pavilions. Alexandre
Maistrasse was in charge of the works, assisted by Julien Quoniam from 1927. From 1938, FĂ©lix Dumail was in charge of site. Among the collaborators of Henri Sellier who
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The first stone was laid in 1921. 4/5th of the inhabitants live in apartment buildings, while the pavilions have a garden at the back. There are several categories of accommodation (in relation to the number of rooms and amenities), the rent of which varies.
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