The main economic centre of France is a region known as the Ile-de-France. This region includes the city of Paris itself and also includes the inner and outer suburbs. ‘This region has a population of around 10.7 million’ (Noin & White). Such a large population provides in turn a large workforce, and this large labour force acts as one of the most significant features of the Paris economy. The large population in the Ile-de-France area generated in 1991, 29% of the countries GDP. Just under a third of the whole populations economy.

Globalisation has a large effect on the urban fabric of Paris. Loc

He also wanted to increase to quality of life for the Paris people designing plans to introduce open spaces, better amenities, such as new water and sewage systems and modifying the cities transport to offer greater efficiency. ‘Haussman’s plans intended to transform Paris from a medieval to a modern city’. He planed to ‘rid Paris of its industrial base and working class and so to transform it…into a nonrevolutionary bastion of support for the bourgeois’

The development and investment within Paris has triggered a large influx of migration. People looking for jobs. Mainly lower paid jobs, such as manual, lower semi skilled jobs and part time roles. This pattern is similar to that in most other large global cities. The foreign population of France is estimated to be about 14% of the total population, with African and Asian migrants making the bulk of this figure. Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Turks ass well as immigrants from black Africa. These immigrants have mainly manual jobs and also tend to live in disadvantaged regions, like the north east suburbs such as ‘Aulnay-sous-Bois’. They often have little to no education and therefore are on lower waged salaries.

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