La Plaine

This guide to La Plaine in Marseille opens on the sixteenth of October twenty eighteen, when chainsaws and riot police arrived behind a concrete wall to remake a square that had hosted one of the city's biggest farmers markets for generations. You'll hear how officials framed the redevelopment as a face-lift, how thousands of residents marched against it, and what the wall itself was built to keep the neighborhood from seeing. Look at the plane trees and the statue of Jean Jaurès still standing over the square today.