Away from the bustling Latin Quarter, it is characterized by its modern profile. The Towers, constructed during Georges Pompidou's presidency in the early 1970s, are often talked about. When Valéry Giscard d’Estaing became President of the Republic in 1974, the morphological evolution of the neighborhood came to an end, and it is now fixed in its 1970s structure. Although it is still testimony to an era during which demographic growth required a fast response in the face of the increasingly sordid conditions of poor and industrial areas.