When I first came across this, I thought that as an ad it was clever and gorgeous. Today, in context, it’s grimly ironic. But cities confronted with terror can be defiant and resilient, as New York has shown and as Paris is determined to be.
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For some perspective, at least on the Paris region, there are also these images in the Washington Post: Leaving Paris for her suburbs.
Photographer and native Parisian Raphael Fournier spent a year documenting the suburbs of Paris in his series “Grand Paris.” The series was inspired by the book “La Révolution de Paris,” by the urbanist Paul-Hervé Lavessière.
The book discussed urban evolutions, “real” Parisians and landscapes, theorizing that for Paris to survive, it has to become a metropolis where its historical suburban areas and culture will be more mixed with the city center. Lavessière’s book is based on a 130-kilometer (80 miles) revolution around Paris by foot that goes outside the ring road through the suburbs.
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