The United States (Lyon)

The district of the the United States is located in the 8th district of Lyon. It corresponds to a town planning scheme built between 1919 and 1933, led under the direction of the town-planner Tony Garnier.

History

A few days after the entry in war of the the United States in 1917, the municipal council of Lyon baptizes the new boulevard having to connect Guillotière to Vénissieux of the name of this new ally. The district will naturally take the name of its main axis. Then slightly built, it accommodates nearly 10000 American soldiers in transit for the face. Then, little time after the end of the hostilities, part of this zone becomes a kind of not very frequentable Bidonville. It is in the Années 1930 that the district will take its current aspect overall. Indeed the mayor of the time, Edouard Herriot, entrusts to a town-planner, Tony Garnier, the mission of setting up an experimental city at the beginning of the Années 1920. The January 5th 1931, the final draft is stopped. The blocks of dwellings are officially inaugurated the June 25th 1934.

Thanks to his coherent approach of XX century the urban problems, Tony Garnier knew to reconcile modernity and humanity in his constructions. In testify these built buildings on reasonable scale, surrounded by green areas and accommodating trade at their ground floor. Installation was then revolutionist for residences intended for the modest incomes: gas, electricity, garbage chute. Unfortunately, the project of Garnier will remain unfinished, crossed in its dash by the beginning of the Second world war.

The central reservation of the boulevard of the United States was designed right from the start, in 1917, to accommodate a Tramway in Exclusive right of way. Irony of the history, this one will be built only nearly one century later, for the line T4, whose startup is envisaged in 2009!

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