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> Have you been to a European city, somewhere built before cars? Ahh, Paris. Well-known for its cramped boulevards.
by rodgerd 12y ago
> Have you been to a European city, somewhere built before cars?
Ahh, Paris. Well-known for its cramped boulevards.
- dragonwriter 12y agoWell, it was known for its cramped streets until, to p make it easier to respond effectively with massed fire to the kind of anti-government action seen in the revolution, they were widened. That change does predate cars by a little bit, though.
- dagw 12y agoCentral Paris is kind of a special case since the original center was all but demolished and rebuilt in a sweeping top down reform to get rid of all the cramped streets. And solving traffic congestion was one of the reasons for putting in those wide boulevards. The 'original' Paris, before Hausmann rebuilt it from the ground up, was full of narrow streets.