13th Sept 2023
The government has launched a programme to begin the transformation of retail parks in France.
Sixty years after the creation of the first Carrefour hypermarket at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris, the outskirts of the towns and cities of France have been blighted by a succession of soulless commercial centres, which have become known as 'la France moche’ (ugly France).