La Butte Rouge Garden City

Perched on a 150m-high hill, La Butte Rouge Garden City gets its name from the colour of the clay of which it is made. The land was purchased by the authorities in 1918 to build affordable housing, and in 1932, construction of a garden city was begun by the architects Bassompierre, de Rutté, and Sirvin and the landscape gardener André Riousse. The concept combined single- and multiple-occupancy social housing to rent with landscaping, private gardens and shared amenities. A city within a city, designed to be as self-sufficient as possible.

La Butte Rouge garden city is considered a model city for its avant-garde design and boasts more than 3,600 dwellings.
In 2010, the Ministry of Culture and Communication awarded it "20th-century heritage status in the "Housing developments 1945-1975” category".

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