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"Anne Hidalgo's redevelopments in Paris: an aesthetic and ecological disaster"

2022-07-07T17:54:00.532Z


TRIBUNE - The Parisian municipality is not content to seriously disfigure the capital. On crucial issues, its choices lead to results opposed to the objectives it displays in terms of the environment, argue the architects Tangui Le Dantec and Dominique Dupré-Henry.


Tangui Le Dantec and Dominique Dupré-Henry are the co-founders of Aux Arbres Citoyens!, an association for the protection of trees destroyed or threatened by the work of Anne Hidalgo.

The recent episodes of heat wave have shown us the total inadequacy of Paris in the face of global warming.

The solutions proposed by the city - cycle paths, development of schoolyards in the “oasis” course, installation of shadehouses and misters, etc. - have in reality only little effectiveness.

And many of the redevelopments it carries out even greatly aggravate the situation.

The development of cycle paths, which Anne Hidalgo has made an absolute priority, is certainly positive, but must be put into perspective: 80% of trips in Paris are made by public transport and on foot.

The priority would therefore be to first think in terms of the greatest number and to ensure that pedestrian routes no longer resemble obstacle courses, as they do today.

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Source: lefigaro

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