Beaujardin

Beaujardin or Beaujardin-Raspail is a district of the French city of Tours. Insee defined it in its division of the Tours commune into 22 IRIS. It is located in the southeast of the commune. It borders the Sanitas district to the north, Rochepinard and the banks of the Cher to the south, and the commune of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to the east. Although the district traces its origins back to the 19th-century château de Beaujardin, it developed mainly between the wars, notably with the establishment of a workers' garden city, and completed the bulk of its urbanization during the Trente Glorieuses period. With a population of some 4,000 in 2012, Beaujardin is a mixed-use neighborhood composed largely of small owner-occupied homes, but also contains numerous social housing units, including two workers' housing estates.