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Paris Reimagined (Because It Doesn't Work)
Architects' "10 strategies for creating a metropolitan area known as Grand Paris" mark the city's "first major redesign since the Napoleonic era. Their ideas range from the prosaic to the fanciful. But they all say that Paris - its public transit system saturated, its periphery spoiled by ugly housing projects, and its suburbs an undefined sprawl of disconnected towns - does not work." Christian Science Monitor 03/19/09
Architects' "10 strategies for creating a metropolitan area known as Grand Paris" mark the city's "first major redesign since the Napoleonic era. Their ideas range from the prosaic to the fanciful. But they all say that Paris - its public transit system saturated, its periphery spoiled by ugly housing projects, and its suburbs an undefined sprawl of disconnected towns - does not work." Christian Science Monitor 03/19/09
Posted March 19, 2009 07:51 AM
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