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At the end of the 1950s, Evry and Courcouronnes were two sparsely populated agricultural villages. Following the development and urban planning scheme for new towns entrusted to Paul Delouvrier, a new agglomeration linking the neighboring towns of Evry, Courcouronnes, Bondoufle, and Lisses was born in 1969.
Over the next thirty years, the new town, which had become a prefecture, rapidly urbanized and became denser. It benefits from an architectural diversity where some vestiges of a medieval architecture are mixed with large groups of modern brick and concrete buildings. Industrial zones rub shoulders with numerous housing districts, from low-cost housing to suburban and tree-lined areas, not to mention the pyramid-shaped housing emblematic of the city and its urban planning ambitions.
In 2001, the status of new town was abandoned. Evry and Courcouronnes will merge in 2019 to become a single city.