*Co-founders of Aux Arbres Citoyens!, an association for the protection of trees destroyed or threatened by the work of Anne Hidalgo.
The Paris City Hall has undertaken to transform almost all of the capital's emblematic squares.
In 2015, Anne Hidalgo announced the Réinventons nos places! program, which initially concerned seven major places: Bastille, Nation, Italie, Fêtes, Gambetta, Madeleine and Panthéon.
The Place de la République, which had served as a test, is certainly one of the examples of the redevelopment of large squares which are the focus of the most discontent among Parisians.
This square and that of the Panthéon symbolize, for different reasons, the most flagrant failures of this urban policy led by the town hall.
Inaugurated in 2014, the redeveloped Place de la République was previously a green space for which the Parisian Urban Planning Workshop (Apur) had proposed in 2008 a development highlighting the late 19th century composition of the square, a strong element of the…
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