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Paris Some motorways of Paris A6 motorway Peripherique freeway (Inner paris beltway) A3 motorway A14 motorway A4 motorway

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I didn't found a picture of the closed M'sac Donald's than my home In montparnasse A picture of a advertissement of this Mac donald's http://www.flickr.com/photos/giulia_/19542834/ And the street where it is located. It is inside a building of the beginning of the 20th century like the most. But one of or the most original Mac Donald's in Paris, located in the main chinatown

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Paris downtown is formed by the whole municipality of Paris (It can be extented at some municipality of inner suburbs like Saint Denis Boulogne or Neuilly, La Defense Vincenne wich are now concidered in the downtown) It size is 100 Km where live 2.1 million inhabitants and 1.6 million employees. These pictures was not taken by me 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. [image deleted because it may be too graphic for some members] Marc 14. 15. 16. 17.

Yes tramway or light rail are a good idea but in some place it can be really stupid, Built a tramway in a dense city of 10 millon inhabitant is stupid. A tramway in a place like this will be overcrowed. And Paris make this mistake, now the light rail is overcrowed a subway should be more appropriated. In the avenue aroud the circulation dropped of 25% but the pollution increased of 10% why, because the traffic jam due at light rail platform. But with the tramway those district are beautifuf and Paris main Chinatown is at 30 min of Val de Seine business district and Chinatown is near Paris rive gauche business district The ugly but not cheap towers of Paris main chinatown. Now with the tramway this boulevard is more active.

Montparnasse tower 209m, the tallest skyscraper of Paris between 1973 and 2009. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65.

Originally posted by: NaviMumbai I believe that one of the major causes of urban decay is mass suburbanization. However, Paris is one of the cities that has reversed the process. Inner cities have interesting architecture, and lots of cultural life, contrasting with the bland suburbs. _______________________________________________________________ Oh the myth of ... Paris : rich suburbs : poor Only some suburbs are horrible but the majority are nice. The suburbs where I will live look at this and it is more vibrant than the historic center of Paris Southern inner suburbs of Paris O.K too many cranes, modern building to be in decay and too dense for be a real suburbs That"s you call inner city, the core of urban area is formed by Paris and its inner suburbs wich represent 6.7 million inhabitants in 700km2 (10 million in the whole urban area) The historical center of Paris is dead, exept near the Opera (CBD) and Chatelet Only tourist go in these area. (Tourism is only 7% of Paris economy) Parisian live, work, do shopping... in the oulter arrondissements and the inner sububs. In Paris buildings can be ugly and expensive or old and cheap Main chinatown (South of inner Paris), a big appartement here cost $1,000,000 and appartements in Montrouge or in Issy (Inner suburbs in the 3 first pics) are as expensive but an appartement in this district is twice less expensive. (North of inner Paris) Why? because in fact it is not Paris rich and suburbs poor but West and south for high and middle class. East and north for low and middle class. In the north of Paris there is a lot of old factury warehouse and low income high-rises but now these areas are in redevelopments and a ton of office and residencial buildings are under in construction. I agree with you, oulter suburbs are bland with the sprawly houses and the high-rise low income buildings.

tour Courcellor 2 Paris (not la Defense) Actually After

And RER was also planned at the end 19th century just after that London built the first Underground. (It was the first idea of subway for Paris wich link the in underground the commuter lines) But the rebirth of Crossrail idea is inspired by the RER A (Wich is the busiest urban line in the Europe.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3911207.stm It is a really good idea for London.

Originally posted by: ILL Tonkso Im sure Londons is busier. Theres more of it and it covers more of an area..quote> In fact New York subway (1.5 billion passengers) is busier than London underground ( 1 billion passengers ) but London railway system (Tube Rail and DLR) is as busy than New York railway system (Subway, Path, suburban rail) New York railway system : 1.8 billion passengers London railway system : 1.8 billion passengers and to praise me because I am French Paris railway system (Metro RER, suburban train) is busier than New York railway system Paris railway system : 2.5 billion passengers RER is very busy that why english was inspired by the RER A for build Crossrail. But the busiest and the most extensive railway system in the world is without doubt Tokyo In august 2007 it will become my favorite.

Paris has a lot of 70's skyscrapers. Tour Europlaza Paris la Defense Tour Septentrion built in 1971 Became in 1995 the Europlaza tower Tour Opus 12 Paris la Defense Tour Credit Lyonais built in 1972 Became in 2004 tour Opus 12 Tour CB16 Built in 1971 renovated in 2004 ] All the ugly building around will be demolished for build taller skyscrapers. It look cool in the densest concentration of skyscrapers in Europe The next is Tour Jussieu near Notre Dame But nobody know how will be the new cladding Actually

Originally posted by: ILL Tonkso Looks good but this thread is supposed to be about 125 Old Broad Street.quote> Ah sorry I thought that this thread was about refurbished skyscrapers.

I know more incredible. Tour AXA Paris la Defense This ugly building built in 1974 Will become that . It is the refurbishment and heightening of the old AXA Tower (159m/522ft) due to be turned into a 240m/780ft skyscraper with a different design and different cladding. Work has started

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 53. 54. 55. 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. 56. 57. Residential area of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, a western new town which also partialy became a suburb 58.

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.

A great view the several faces of Paris Don't walk by JP 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. The next time Montparnasse. Comment, question me about Paris its architecture, its people, its districts....

Paris has a south asian community, mainly in the 10th and 19th arrondissementsGanesha feast 29. 30. 31. The next time : The architecture of Paris can look like at New York ?

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 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pictures by me 11. 12. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.

I agree with Mike the Mayor, both two has my favorite cities with Tokyo and N.Y.

The CBD of Paris, the empire of facadism. Facadism is a method to build modern building inside an old facade. It is actually one of biggest business district in Europe with 400,000 employes and 8 million m² 86 million sq ft of office space (16% of Paris total office space) Inside this district you can found the Parisian japanese district. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181. 182. 183. 184. 185. 186. 187. 188. 189. 190. These photos was not taken by me. but by JP 191. 193. 194. 195. 196. 197. 198. 199. 200.

It is because these buildings are not for low income, at 500 000 € for a 70m2 the majority of french can't afford an appartement here. Actually only the horizontal blocks are public housing. These high rises was built for the upper middle class but it was not a big succces and chinese bought appartement at low prices. Now this district is not the most expensive but it is not the most affordable. Some high rises have private swimming pool in the last floor.

I find other great pictures of the architecture of this district : the Chinatown of the 13th arrondissement 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. The fabulous skyline of Paris 13th arrondissement I love this 163. 164. 165. The next time : Opera the CBD of Paris.

Yes I love the city where I live. Paris has not only people from the former french colonie. It has aslo people from East Asia : Chinese, Korean , Japanese, Thai.... People from South Asia : Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Indian, Bengladeshi People from Europe : Italian, Portuguese (Paris would be the third portuguese city after Lisbon and Porto) Spanish, Polish, Yugoslave... The majority of Black, Arab, Asian... people in Paris are born in France and have the french nationality. (I am myself half black mixed race) View of Paris main chinatown (Paris has actually three chinatown maybe more) Unlike that it like, these high rises are not cheap Picture taken by me 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. Photos by JP 154. 155. 156.

It is not my picture, those pictures was taken by a Canadian named kilgoretrout in summer 2006. It took also pictures of London, Rome, Madrid and Lisbon. My camera is actually broken . Paris is a huge city, It is one of 4 global cities with New York, London and Tokyo. Actually only Tokyo is not really a multicultural city but its street life is huge.