* A ghetto map of France, euphemistically termed "sensitive urban zones", from the French Le Monde newspaper. For reference, the map of France in the bottom left-hand corner represents the same ghetto map at the end of the 1980s.
* What is unclear however, is what this means quantitatively. The map only shows the number of these zones, but nothing about the basis for becoming such a zone (did the standards change between 1980s and now -- ie. is the problem under or overstated?), nor the total number of "[urban] zones" within a given county.
* This map should be reworked more objectively to (1) show the total number of zones within each zone, (2) the percentage of sensitive zones as a proportion of all zones in the county, and (3) a color labelling of the circles related to population density (so that you can see that a rural county with 20% of ghettoes represents a lower population mass than a 20% of ghettoes county near Paris or Marseille). But I guess it's a start for complacent France to look itself in the mirror.
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