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Nov. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris / November 2015

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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris arrête tout trafic

Doug Clarke envoie cet article de Forbes: . Paris Will Stop All Traffic, Literally, For One Day in September .…
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Aug. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Cycling in Paris: “Ignore the signals and keep going” – legally

Sandy James links to this piece from BBC Magazine that’s sure to get ’em going. The city that lets cyclists…
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Apr. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: A Secret Apartment in Paris

Good view, too.   From veranda: When designer Gustave Eiffel finished his tower in 1889, he built himself a secret…
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Apr. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris versus – or vis-a-vis – New York

A popular theme, this comparison (for instance, this video).  And now this: In 2012 Penguin Books published Vahram Muratyan’s book…
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Mar. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

An Eagle-eye View of Paris

That is not a metaphor.…
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Jan. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris and New York – a Visual Comparison in a New Context

When I first came across this, I thought that as an ad it was clever and gorgeous.  Today, in context,…
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Dec. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Paris in 2020

If Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo can follow though. From CityLab: No diesel fuel at all will be burnt within Paris.…
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Sep. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Tour Montparnasse: Mon Cher, you look so much better at night

Brent Toderian, below, refers to the much-reviled Tour Montparnasse.  It’s got a new look – at night, at least. Often…
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Aug. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Recommended Reading: “The Most Beautiful Walk in the World”

Looking for a summer read?  This is it: . Paris.  On foot.  With a guide who writes well. But it’s…
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May. 22, 2014 / Gordon Price

Annals of Walking – 27: Thirty kph for Paris …. Are countdown signals safe?

A pedestrian perspective. __________________________________   Révolution à la française . From World Streets: The just-elected new Mayor of Paris, Mrs. Anne…
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Mar. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Paris: No Going Back

Greg Vann tweets this update on the Paris civic election: . Placemaking in Paris: How Politics Changed the Parisian Landscape…
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Mar. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Gentrification in Paris c. 1870, Vancouver c. 2014?

Michael Kimmelman reviews an exhibition of photographs by Charles Marville, the 19th-century Parisian who documented the city during its Haussmann transformation, “when…
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Nov. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Electric Autolib’ comes to Paris

World Streets updates the latest addition to Parisian streets: As electric vehicles reduce oil consumption and vehicle carbon emissions on…

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