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“Urban agriculture, plant walks, garish benches: ideology makes Paris ugly”

2023-02-03T19:00:39.213Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - From the promenade de Barbès to the destruction of the square Pasdeloup, the architects and founders of the collective Aux Arbres citoyen review the recent developments of the City of Paris. A cocktail of sloppiness and ugliness, they say.


In a city, the public space plays a fundamental role since it is par excellence the place of living together, it contributes very strongly to the identity of the city and has the function of accommodating activities and varied audiences, while allowing them to coexist.

From a spatial point of view, the public space is a space "in hollow" of the urban form, it is by nature the space of the void, all the more essential in a city as dense as Paris.

Boulevards, squares and squares make up Haussmann's public space, which, together with street furniture and nature, constitutes a complex system of exceptional quality.

However, today in Paris, these spaces are threatened by an ideological policy disconnected from the existing city,

Promise of the 2014 campaign, the urban promenade of Barbès-Stalingrad, Paris 10th, 18th and 19th, has been converted into…

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Source: lefigaro

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