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A vast mineral space entirely devoted to automobiles, Place de la Concorde is today one of the worst heat islands in the capital
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: these are the first reasons given by the Paris town hall to justify its development project presented in Council on February 8 and validated in its principles.
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The place given to the car in this emblematic place will have been only a parenthesis in history
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declared, shortly before, the mayor of Paris, explaining that half of the Place de la Concorde would now be closed to traffic. automobile after the Olympic Games.
However, this decision would unfortunately have the harmful effect of unbalancing the symmetry of the square and canceling its roundabout mode of circulation.
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Place de la Concorde is the largest (7 hectares) of the five royal squares in Paris.
Designed in the 18th century by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, its layout was later completed by the architect Jacques Hittorff with the Luxor obelisk, the…
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