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Last June, French President Nicolas Sarkozy 10 teams of architects and urban planners to imagine a ‘Grand Paris’ that would be among the world's most environmentally-friendly and boldly designed capitals.Imagine a leafy Central Park filled with strolling Parisians where a rundown housing estate now stands, Paris boulevards turned into greenbelts, or a super-fast elevated train for commuters.
These are some of the ideas coming from Europe's cutting-edge architects who are unveiling their grand vision for a bigger and greener Paris this month.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy last June asked 10 teams of architects and urban planners to imagine a "Grand Paris" that would be among the world's most environmentally-friendly and boldly designed capitals.
The project has been billed as the most ambitious since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the famed Champs Elysees.
For this plan, the chosen visionaries include three Pritzker Architecture Prize winners: Richard Rogers of Britain, who gave Paris the Pompidou modern arts centre, Jean Nouvel, who recently won a bid for a landmark Paris skyscraper and Christian de Portzamparc, considered a leading light on urban re-think.
The challenge for the 10 teams was imagining a European metropolis in 30 years time that would be the world's first "post-Kyoto" green urban centre and whose borders would extend beyond the city's current two million residents.
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