The Chatelet metro station is a melting pot of people coming from different social classes and ethnicities. The underground location can be deemed “the micro Paris”.
The crowd is being controlled in a variety of ways:
1- The Advertising posters: trying to sell ideas to people
2- Circulation signs and position of stairways: controlling circulation and flow of people
3- Omni- presence of CCTVs: regulation of behaviors
Can the Chatelet metro station be compared to Michel Foucault’s Panopticon?
Also, taking as a reference Bruno Latour, this station is a place of transformation, where the overlapping circulation of people leave behind overlapping traces of behaviors.
