Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower

Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by bsaul on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:04AM (#19989251)

As a parisian who stayed in SF for a month last year, i can tell you SF is way better for pedestrians than Paris, without any question (except for the hills of course).

Streets are wide enough that you never feel stuck in a line, there are trees everywhere, and the wind from the ocean makes the air feel very clean.

The reason Paris is spending so much energy thinking about its organization is because it is ( and has always been) completely overcrowded with one of the highest population density in the world. For a city that’s almost 2 thousand years old, that’s an extremely difficult problem to tackle.

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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by rdl on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:21AM (#19989337)

I've spent months in both Paris and SF. I hate walking around SF, and enjoy walking around Paris, at least in the 1st-8th. Density is a feature for walking. Paris isn't perfect, but also has fewer piles of human excrement in the middle of the sidewalk, and in the cases you don't want to walk, the metro actually is usable. (Manhattan > Paris for walking and subway, but Paris is fine).

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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by coldtea on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:03AM (#19990537)

>As a parisian who stayed in SF for a month last year, i can tell you SF is way better for pedestrians than Paris, without any question (except for the hills of course).

As a European that has visited both Paris and SF multiple times, Paris wins hands down...

Modern Paris has its problems, but for a pedestrian there's no comparison with SF.

(And let's not even get into the huge homeless/etc problem in SF)

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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by carlob on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:14AM (#19989304)

> For a city that’s almost 2 thousand years old

There is really not much of the city that wasn't redone by Haussmann at the end of the 19th century. Even remnants of medieval Paris are few outside of the Marais.

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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by baud147258 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:46AM (#19990114)

In addition to Haussmann's works, there's also all the reconstruction that had to took place after the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath.

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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by noobermin on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:07PM (#19995960)

I feel like replies to this and elsewhere need to qualify where when they talk about a city. It can vary a lot depending on where you live and need to get to on foot.

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