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Le Havre tramway unifies the upper city, public housing estates of the 1960s to the 80s, with the lower city marked essentially by reconstruction. This status as a major link in a divided agglomeration requires decisive implantation. Where it is located, the track bed serenely imposes itself. For the most part, it is central with lawn that gives grass an urban surface character in its own right. The ground surfaces are simple materials: light coloured concretes in soft grain of warm tones at the same time in response to the modernism of Perret, to the brick of the lower city and the smooth surfaces of the upper city.