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Remaking Paris

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“One of the first things Sarkozy did after he moved into the Elysée Palace was to convene a meeting of prominent architects and ask them to come up with a new blueprint for Paris.(…)The results, a year later, may be the beginning of one of the boldest urban planning operations in French history.”
Article in the New York Times by Nicolai Ouroussoff.