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Originally Posted by Minato Ku
Paris to scrap ban on high-rise tower blocks
8 July 2008
Agence France Presse
Paris city council on Tuesday moved to scrap a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, a decision that could revolutionise the capital's skyline but which is fiercely opposed by green politicians.
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They claim to be green and oppose building tall? I'm tired of these fake-greens.
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On Tuesday, Paris city council voted to launch a public consultation on plans to build towers of up to 200 metres at six emblematic sites just inside the city walls
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I like that idea. specific sites that will get concentrations of taller buildings, like mini-La Defense.
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The 37-metre ceiling was brought in 1977 to call a halt to a string of high-rise projects -- including the Montparnasse tower south of the River Seine -- that were quickly seen as failed experiments in urbanism.
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Because it was the height that made them fail in urbanism? height has nothing to do with it.
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Originally Posted by Jean Nouvel
"This is not about undermining our heritage. But we have to stop thinking that Paris is a museum-city. Paris is not finished... If vertical buildings can enrich the heart of the capital, why deprive ourselves?"
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Hear, hear!
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But others warn that a badly-designed tower can blow apart the social fabric of a neighbourhood.
"Tower blocks ruin the most precious asset of European cities: public spaces," said French architect Henri Gaudin. "They wipe out a whole territory."
Delanoe's plans are fiercely opposed by the French Green Party, who voted against on grounds of energy efficiency.
"Tower blocks are urbanism's equivalent of the four-wheel drive car: flashy machines that devour energy," Green Party councillor Rene Dutrey charged.
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Who said anything about 60s style highrise commieblocks and Le Corbousier style urban planning? These guys are totally missing the point!
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