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Paris (20) Noisy Mont d’Est-RER
Paris (as a municipality) is a small footprint city when compared to other capitals. A central matter for the current French planning scene is how to ensure a coherent urban project with an...
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Paris (19) Les Halles
The Canopy Some 35 years ago I visited Les Halles for the first time; I was a small kid, but I remember going out of a then brand new RER through a hole (set to later become the central court), and...
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Paris (21) Martin Luther King Park
The park as seen from the southeast; the limit is not a high fence, but a lower one with a deep gutter. Batignolles has been marked for over a century by the rail yards leading to the St Lazare...
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Maps 2014 (21) Paris 2020
This is an online version of a 40 sq m digital model of greater Paris currently being exhibited at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, one of the main watering holes for visiting architects in Paris. Worth a...
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Things I saw while on break
The Danube near Vienna, as seen from Khalenberg Hill For those that have followed this blog during the last years, here is the proof it has not disappeared. Just a small fraction of that time was a...
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Maps 2014 (41) Churyumov-Gerasimenko in Paris
I usually fancy maps that tell stories in which you can feel the scale of things. And this week’s news (with the ode to joy as a background sound and the twelve star banner) is somehow related. Beyond...
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What good do shops deliver (4) Chocolate
A chocolate shop just in front of the Madeleine church in Paris Here I use chocolate as well as a direct, factual reference as in a metaphorical way… opening a shop (as any other business) is a display...
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Biblio (116) The evolution of the parisian foodshed from the XIXth to the...
This is the PHD dissertation of Petros Chatzimpiros (engineer and environmental expert, currently university teacher in Geography), presented in june 2011 before the Paris Est university. The author...
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Starters of urban change (4) Wats, fridges and cows
An old urban dairy farm, image taken from the blog “le pieton de Paris” (http://pietondeparis.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/31/27298307.html), with a good article on the issue The arrival of the...
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Biblio (121) Long series for real estate prices in France
Here is a set of interesting references on long-term real estate prices in France, for the 1936-2015 period in the whole country and 1200-2015 for Paris. This vision in long-term series reminds me the...
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