The real faces of Paris

[crazyyaya 4]

OMG so many pictures, exllent photos of life in Paris. I'm not quite sure the meaning of this forum but those pictures really illistrate life in Paris.

[montrouge 2]

La Villette and the 19th arrondissement

La Villette is an old industrial district tranforme in a big park with serveral museums

The 19th arrondissement of Paris is the  most affordable district of Paris and of course the poorest of the inner city.

Pictures by JP

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[montrouge 2]

Paris has a south asian community, mainly in the 10th and 19th arrondissements

Ganesha feast

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The next time : The architecture of Paris can look like at New York ?

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Great pictures, there montrouge. Paris, like I've said so many times before is awesome! Vous restez bien, mon ami!

[montrouge 2]

A great view the several faces of Paris

Don't walk by JP

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The next time Montparnasse.

Comment, question me about Paris its architecture, its people, its districts....

[paperboy15 4]

Originally posted by: montrouge A great view the several faces of Paris

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Is that after-thought air conditioning?

Nice pics...thanks for sharing!

[Urbanism 0]

You would have to pay me to live in that dump. Where's the pics of the riots? ghettos? all the crap that multiculturalism brings.

I've been there and it is a dump. It's no better than London or New York.

[Urbanism 0]

What about the constant riots where's your pics of those? and the garbage in the streets and the pollution and the in general nastiness of the people.

[montrouge 2]

Constant riot in Paris where ? Not in those arrondissements, even not in Clichy sous Bois Aulny sous bois, municipalities where the 2005 riot started.

(Actually it is some probleme in the center, Place de la Bastille but it is young socialist who didn't like the result of the presidencial election.)

Ghetto ? Yes Paris has some Ghettos in inner suburbs, it is not worse than London, but it is a way better than Detroit.

Garbage in the street, you ve been in Paris during a street sweepers strike.

Why you cannot understand that Paris is a real and big city, it has problems like the other big city.

Pollution, criminality, dirtiness, rude and nastiness people...

If you don't like this, Go live in the countryside.

Paris is not the city of the wonders. It is just a normal city.

[Uumke 0]

I agree with you montrouge....it's like all other cities; Amsterdam bursts of criminals and gangs...there are also some ghetto's ( on smaller scale). When you go to Berlin, watch out in Kreuzberg or Moabit.

Every city has it problems.

[intensivecarebear 0]

@ Urbanism: So multiculturalism is to blame for crime, garbage, and drugs? What are you on? Paris is a big city and likewise will have its fair share of urban problems. All great cities have this. Sorry that Paris is not like the movie "Amelie". And as for New York being a dump, clearly you weren't there in the 70s, 80s, or even the early 90s. Sorry for my attitude but your post reeks of ignorance. For someone who's name is "Urbanism", you don't seem to like cities very much. Anyways, wonderful pics!

[hamsterTK 93]

This is going to be a weird request, but do you have any pictures of the fringe suburbs?

Does france have low density sprawl like the US and UK?

[Micah 16]

Does france have low density sprawl like the US and UK? quote>

You mean like almost every country in the world?

Btw, please no flame wars, okay?

[montrouge 2]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK This is going to be a weird request, but do you have any pictures of the fringe suburbs?

Does france have low density sprawl like the US and UK?quote>

 

Yes.

In Paris urban area 6.7 million inhabitants live in a dense area (Paris + inner suburbs)

4 million inhabitants live in area with a low and medium density  (Oulter suburbs)

limite de departement : departments border

Ceinture vert : green belt

Parc naturel regional : Regional natural reserve

Coeur d'agglomeration : core of urban area (Paris + inner suburbs = Greater Paris)

agglomeration central : the rest of urban area (real suburbs)

autres agglomerations : other urban areas (Include in Paris of Metro area)

espace rural : rural area

Paris oulter are sprawll

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Some picture of Oulter suburbs

Ivry, a new town in the south of Paris which is now an outer suburb, a pretty weird place, neither car nor pedestrian oriented. 

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Residential area of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, a western new town which also partialy became a suburb 

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[montrouge 2]

Montparnasse tower

209m, the tallest skyscraper of Paris between 1973 and 2009.

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[david1314 44]

Wow, thanks for all these neat pics montrogue... I really feel like I have a better understanding of paris for it.

I love this thread.

[montrouge 2]

I will post other pictures of unknow faces of Paris.

The next thread will be about Eastern bank of the Seine. 

The old industrial districts of Paris.

Some buildings are very surprising for Paris

[montrouge 2]

The eastern Seine banks of Paris

Pictures by JP

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[montrouge 2]

Rue de Rivoli

Pictures by JP

Rue de Rivoli, one of the biggest streets of Paris linking Place de la Concorde to the City Hall.

In one street, two kilometers, a mix of people, styles, atmospheres...

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[Cockatoo 2,257]

Wow, those are some amazing photo's! I'd like to go to Paris someday

[SimFox 804]

montrouge:

Great pictures, Particularly those by J. Ph. H. But may I ask why do you keep resizing them? Don't you see how it ruins the quality? It is really a shame! May be you could go throuhg old posts and remove that resizing to bring them back to life, so to say...

Beautiful city...

[montrouge 2]

Because there is the 800x600 limit in Simtropolis.

[montrouge 2]

Kremlin Bicetre

Southern inner suburbs

Pictures by me

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[Mr. Beer 12]

Nice!!! Never seen Paris like this... Hope to see picture about large hypermaket (Carefour, Auchan,... one of them is one kilometer large and is near Paris) and the Marne-la-Vall

[montrouge 2]

Thanks.

I would agree that suburbs offers interresting information about the real life since, 80% of Paris don't live in inner Paris

[saltandsauce 0]

i have been to paris the only nice bit is the la belle la cities or something the little island in the middle you havn't show the outskirts and the sleaze of the outer inner city and the badly decaying suburbs

[montrouge 2]

Unlike the apparence the last pictures that I posted are in inner suburbs.

Most inner suburbs look at this, Some are poorer and some are richer.

Actually Inner Paris has the second highest poverty rate and unemploment in the metropolitan area (out  The first being Seine Saint Denis, the northern inner suburbs. 

[montrouge 2]

Montreuil, eastern inner suburbs of Paris

154. View of 20th arrondissement high rises from Montreuil picture by Sinha

Pictures by me

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[Marla_Singer 46]

Anyway, after all these pictures showing the Eastern popular districts. Here are some nice aerials giving you another impression of Paris:

[villagemayor 0]

Wow some really amazing pics of Paris. I especially love the aerial photos and how the main boulevards cut the city like a knife. Keep them coming!