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Here you have a pseudo article of someone ready to say with confidence anything to support his own agenda. Being it true or false... Here it looks like that th
by greatgib 6y ago
Here you have a pseudo article of someone ready to say with confidence anything to support his own agenda. Being it true or false...
Here it looks like that this one wants to promote bicycling so will say anything to support that.
But it is like going back to the dark age. Do you remember when we couldn't go very far from home? Transport things?
He pretends that Paris was better and a paradise before the 'evil work' of Haussmann. It is so untrue!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the center of Paris was viewed as overcrowded, dark, dangerous, and unhealthy. In 1845, the French social reformer Victor Considerant wrote: "Paris is an immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, pestilence and sickness work in concert, where sunlight and air rarely penetrate. Paris is a terrible place where plants shrivel and perish, and where, of seven small infants, four die during the course of the year."
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Also some interesting photo of that time:
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/11/lost-paris-documenting-the-disappearance-of-a-medieval-city/ https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/11/lost-paris-documen...
- francis_t_catte 6y agohave you ever heard of... trains?
- greatgib 6y agoIn France, you are not allowed to transport 'packages' in trains. Just luggages. But more closely related to cities, imagine your life if there was just bicycles lanes and there was no car/truck for the plumber, ambulances, deliveries and supplying, old and handicap people, ...