President Sarkozy has invited starchitects to propose new visions for greater Paris. In all, 38 groups submitted proposals last month. Sarkozy is expected to announce the 10 winning teams next week. | globemail
It will be interesting to see whether or not the schemes adress the critical issues facing Paris's future. Perhaps the most critical is the one least addressed in terms of scope (or so it seems from the article).
And that is less an architectural problem in the most explicit sense of the word and more an issue of administartion and beaucracy; namely what can be done about the multiple realms of administrative power. Too many politicians/beaucrats have their hands in th epot, because of the way Paris and its greater metropolitan region i sadministered.
Fixing this is more akin to AMO research on the geo-political future of the EU....
i think paris municipal government should let the communist intellectuals develop their own micro governments in the peripheries with the sprits of 68. after all, there are enormous lessons about what not to do, and the ideology has branched off to smaller but refined areas in relation to environments, regionalism, autonomy and so forth. if returing to pre-haussmann paris or becoming like north vietnam i.e. as a surrogate of a foreign influence is a major concern, maybe it can take an absolved form partly sustained by the center through careful considerations of cultural programs. there are many realized projects to be referred to as precedents, not to mention all the cool utopian projects of now starchitects.
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this is huge. sarko needs a distraction from his free fall. i am all eyes and ears.
It will be interesting to see whether or not the schemes adress the critical issues facing Paris's future. Perhaps the most critical is the one least addressed in terms of scope (or so it seems from the article).
And that is less an architectural problem in the most explicit sense of the word and more an issue of administartion and beaucracy; namely what can be done about the multiple realms of administrative power. Too many politicians/beaucrats have their hands in th epot, because of the way Paris and its greater metropolitan region i sadministered.
Fixing this is more akin to AMO research on the geo-political future of the EU....
i think paris municipal government should let the communist intellectuals develop their own micro governments in the peripheries with the sprits of 68. after all, there are enormous lessons about what not to do, and the ideology has branched off to smaller but refined areas in relation to environments, regionalism, autonomy and so forth. if returing to pre-haussmann paris or becoming like north vietnam i.e. as a surrogate of a foreign influence is a major concern, maybe it can take an absolved form partly sustained by the center through careful considerations of cultural programs. there are many realized projects to be referred to as precedents, not to mention all the cool utopian projects of now starchitects.
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