Baron Haussmann, celebrated as one of the greatest urban planners in European history, is credited with having transformed Paris from an overcrowded, dirty and disease-riddled city in the 1840s to a breathable, walkable city with wide, well-lit avenues, cobbled streets, and ashlar buildings with wrought-iron balconies. But there’s more to the Parisian urban landscape than contributions from the 19th century. To talk about urbanism and the changing face of Paris, I chat with Alice Cabaret, a French urban strategist with international experience in the fields of creative industrial reconversion and urban innovation. She is the Founder of The Street Society, a collaborative urban agency based in Paris which promotes innovation in the fields of property development and urban transformation.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Street Society http://www.the-street-society.com/

The Maboneng Precinct http://www.the-street-society.com/prop

Grand Paris project https://www.societedugrandparis.fr/info/discover-the-Grand-Paris-new-metro-205

Paris Olympics 2024 https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/08/paris-doesnt-need-the-olympics/535698/

Paris and its Estranged suburbs https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/world/europe/paris-tries-to-embrace-suburbs-isolated-by-poverty-and-race.html

Anne Hidalgo's Plans for Green Paris Falters https://www.thelocal.fr/20180314/tempers-flare-as-paris-push-to-go-green-falters

Les Grands Voisins https://lesgrandsvoisins.org/

Ground Control https://www.groundcontrolparis.com/

La Petite Ceinture https://www.paris.fr/petiteceinture