Le chemin du Chapitre (en occitan : camin del Capítol) est une voie de Toulouse, chef-lieu de la région Occitanie, dans le Midi de la France.
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The Campus de cancérologie de Toulouse is a cancer research center with a European dimension. Located south of Toulouse, in the Lafourguette district on the symbolic site of the explosion of the AZF factory in 2001, the campus welcomes private and public actors with the aim of harmonizing their research for the fight against cancer.
The campus was developed by the Toulouse Métropole, in partnership with the general council of Haute-Garonne, the regional council of Occitania, the French State and Europe. The building has been designed by the architect Yann Padlewski from the Jean-Paul Viguier architectural firm.
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The canton of Toulouse-6 is an administrative division of the Haute-Garonne department, southern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Toulouse.
It consists of the following communes:
Toulouse
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On 21 September 2001, an explosion occurred at the AZF fertiliser factory in Toulouse, France, belonging to Grande Paroisse, a subsidiary of Total.
Three hundred tonnes of ammonium nitrate was stored in hangar 221 222. The entire factory was destroyed, making a crater with a depth of about 7 metres and a diameter of 40 metres. Steel girders were found 3 kilometres away from the explosion site. The blast measured 3.4 on the Richter scale, with an estimated power equivalent to 20-40 tons of TNT. The explosion was heard up to 100 km away, with the sound of the explosion audible as far away as in Canejan, Spain 90 km south of Toulouse. Due to the acoustics of the hills and the loud sound, the explosion was reported as occurring in multiple places. Police at first believed that at least five bombs had simultaneously gone off. There is still controversy over the exact number of explosions.
The factory was close to the city: one of the most inhabited areas, Le Mirail, is 1 kilometre away. Around 10 percent of the inhabitants of Toulouse had to be evacuated.
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AZF was the name of a chemical factory in Toulouse, France, which exploded on 21 September 2001. The blast was equivalent to 20-40 tons of TNT, producing an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4, and was heard 80 km away. The incident resulted in 31 deaths and left 2,500 wounded. Damages paid by insurance companies exceeded 1.5 billion euros.
Although authorities initially treated the incident as an accident, the then Environment Minister speculated that the explosion may have been "a terrorist attack" in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The body of a worker known to harbor Islamic fundamentalist sympathies was found in the blast and investigated, although official investigation found the blast to be accidental. In spring of 2004, a terrorist group adopted the same name and threatened the French government with bombings.
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Le Mirail is a district in Toulouse, France. It was an urban expansion project proposed by the then-mayor Louis Bazerque in 1958, to combat the increasing population, and resulting housing shortage.
In 1962, the Greek-French architect Georges Candilis was given the responsibility of designing the new quarter in Toulouse, along with Shadrach Woods and Alexis Josic.
Finished in 1972, the architectural experiment ended up being around two thirds of its planned size.
One of the largest urban renewal projects in the city of Toulouse, that of the Reynerie district, launched in 2019, provides for the demolition of four tripod tower blocks as part of the urban renewal project.