Episode 19: The Changing Urban Landscape of Paris with Alice Cabaret

Baron Haussmann, celebrated as one of the greatest urban planners in European history, is credited with having transformed Paris from an overcrowded, dirty and disease-riddled city in the 1840s to a breathable, walkable city with wide, well-lit avenues, cobbled streets, and ashlar buildings with wrought-iron balconies. But there’s more to the Parisian urban landscape than contributions from the 19th century. To talk about urbanism and the changing face of Paris, I chat with Alice Cabaret, a French urban strategist with international experience in the fields of creative industrial reconversion and urban innovation. She is the Founder of The Street Society, a collaborative urban agency based in Paris which promotes innovation in the fields of property development and urban transformation. Mentioned in this episode: The Street Society http://www.the-street-society.com/ The Maboneng Precinct http://www.the-street-society.com/prop Grand Paris project https://www.societedugrandparis.fr/info/discover-the-Grand-Paris-new-metro-205 Paris Olympics 2024 https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/08/paris-doesnt-need-the-olympics/535698/ Paris and its Estranged suburbs https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/world/europe/paris-tries-to-embrace-suburbs-isolated-by-poverty-and-race.html Anne Hidalgo's Plans for Green Paris Falters https://www.thelocal.fr/20180314/tempers-flare-as-paris-push-to-go-green-falters Les Grands Voisins https://lesgrandsvoisins.org/ Ground Control https://www.groundcontrolparis.com/ La Petite Ceinture https://www.paris.fr/petiteceinture