The Case Against Fake “Walkable Urbanism”
If You Lived Here, You’d Be Urban By Now: The case against a “walkable urbanism” that is neither walkable nor urban.
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Urban news [almost] daily.Archive for June, 2010
Paris’s new planning strategy: bookshops in, textile wholesalers out
In May last year, as he was strolling down a sidestreet in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter, Alexandre de Nuñez spotted a sign on the front of a building near the white dome of the Panthéon. “For rent,” it said, with one provision: “For bookshop.”
Officially inaugurated this week by mayor Bertrand Delanoë, the Franco-Argentinian’s cosy new El Salon del Libro is one of a cluster of librairies opening in the city’s historic district of erudition, where students mill around the Sorbonne and lecturers recline in the Luxembourg gardens.
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