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Old Posted Apr 29, 2017, 2:22 PM
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Paris needs to stop its post-war 'urbanisme sur dalle', especially when it comes to high-rise environment, which it already did anyway.

I still don't know about any literal English translation for that term. A so called dalle is a gigantic concrete deck, a 100% pedestrian artificial ground with buildings sitting upon.

La Défense's such deck may be the largest in the world, with a mess of roads underneath to hide cars and spare the district from any road traffic. The deck explains its oddest layout. When they started to develop it in the 1950s, some planners even believed in strange far fetched things, like helicopters were supposed to end up replacing cars in an urban environment. Anyone would fly instead of driving in their expectations. However, since none of this ever happened, it is more simple and more effective to make it the good old way by aligning skyscrapers along the streets today.

I guess that's a main thing Paris would learn about from any US city.
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