This article is a sequel of the one written on October 26 about the weaponized architecture of police stations in Paris’ Northern banlieues. Now that the state of emergency has been declared (see previous article), the power granted to the police is even stronger and the imaginary created by their antagonism crystallized into architecture seems to be even more relevant. As described in the part 1 of this research, architecture, through its usual codes (material, spatiality, aesthetics, etc.) attempts to disguise with more or less success the militarized function that these eight police stations clearly fulfill. A future study should show that police stations in Paris Western banlieues, where most of the wealthiest municipalities are located, drastically differ from this weaponized paradigm of the Northern banlieues, where live the most economic precarious populations partially constituted by a stigmatized Black and Arab youth.
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SITUATION MAP ///
North is on the right side / The length of the map is 20 kilometers / Red squares are the cités (see past map/article) / Blue squares are the photographed police stations
01: VILLIERS LE BEL – 02: GARGES LES GONESSE – 03: PIERREFITTE – 04: AUBERVILLIERS /// See part 1 of the article
05: LA PLAINE SAINT DENIS POLICE STATION ///
06: LA COURNEUVE POLICE STATION ///
07: BOBIGNY POLICE STATION ///
08: NOISY LE SEC POLICE STATION ///
