Decapitated streetlamps, the rusty plinth overflowing with garbage. Traffic lights patched up on all sides, embellished with dangling electric wires. The improbable “
eco-solidarity-inclusive”
wooden “benches”
that are rotting, unless it is an abandoned site ... While the historic street furniture of Paris is deteriorating irreparably, even disappearing, it is a new style of public equipment that the City grows on the sidewalks. With great reinforcement of “aesthetic grammar lines” or “pedestrian appeasement approaches”, here is the capital transformed, perpetually under construction, bristling with concrete barricades and small yellow plots. And not necessarily, as Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to believe,
"more beautiful since
(her)
arrived at the responsibilities ”
.
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