TN THE autumn of 2005 car-burning and Ariots in the banlieues, the public-housing projects that ring French cities, prompted the declaration of a state of emergency. Since then, as much as €35 billion ($48 billion) has been spent blowing up grim 1960s tower blocks and replacing them with lower-rise housing, with landscaped paths and trees. New plate-glass office blocks have sprung up in low-rent business centres. Has this improved the lot of mainly Muslim people in the banlieues?
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