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NYC looks older than Paris somehow, even though that shouldn’t make sense.
by Xcelerate 3y ago
NYC looks older than Paris somehow, even though that shouldn’t make sense.
- jfengel 3y agoParis was substantially rebuilt in the mid 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa... A lot of what you think of as "Paris style" is much newer than New York City. NYC has plenty of buildings older than that, and more importantly, its grid pattern is even older. New York does have many newer buildings, while Paris deliberately prevented much modernization after that. Downtown Paris has no skyscrapers except the Eiffel Tower itself, but it does have modern business centers pushed off to the outskirts of the city.