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Paris limits high-rise constructions in new urban plan

urban planning – In the new local urban plan that Paris is putting to the vote on Monday, the executive renounces high-rise constructions, but increases the possibilities of raising buildings in wide streets

This is an old debate, which is taking a radical turn. With the new local urban plan, which must be voted on Monday by the Council of Paris, the city will limit the height of the buildings that can be built. While the current regulations allow constructions of up to 180 m on the outskirts of the city, no new project can now exceed 37 m. It is in a way a page that is definitively turned on the era of large high-rise projects, launched by the former urban planning assistant Jean-Louis Missika, with the highly contested Tour Triangle, 180 meters high, as its emblem. , whose work began in 2022.

The challenge was located on the outskirts, and in particular in the neighborhoods of Bruneseau (13th arrondissement of Paris) and Bercy-Charenton (12th arrondissement of Paris), where large towers had once been considered. Because in the center of Paris, the limit has long been 31 m, even 25 or 18 m “If we look back in history, Paris has never really used height to create its density. The city is capped everywhere at the same height, there are very few intramural towers”, relativizes with 20 Minutes Franck Boutté, who runs a (…) Read more at 20 minutes

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2023-06-05 11:00:29
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