You think that Paris still lacks a little greenery? Cars and pollution are driving you crazy? Good news: a new "urban park" of nearly 27 hectares, more than the Buttes-Chaumont park or the Tuileries garden, should be created in the northeast of Paris by 2040. The goal? Allowing runners and pedestrians to travel 11 kilometers in a green environment, as far away from cars as possible, between the Porte de La Villette and the Porte de La Chapelle.
More green spaces for Parisians
After the ban on advertisements and the limitation of car traffic in the streets of Paris, a new projet that the municipality wants to implement to address the challenges of the energy transition. As displayed in the future local urban development plan, the capital wants to make 300 new hectares of green spaces accessible to the public by 2040, including around fifty in northeastern Paris, according to Le Monde. Among them, a single-block park of nearly 27 hectares extending from Porte de La Villette to Porte de La Chapelle. A way toavoid heat islands during the summer.
"L’objectif inscrit dans le futur plan local d’urbanisme est de faire passer la surface d’espaces verts accessibles de 8,6 mètres carrés à 10 mètres carrés par habitant, d’ici à 2040. L’un des outils privilégiés est la « rue-jardin »."
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A tricky sector
It's hard to imagine this new green space when you consider that the area around Porte de La Villette and Porte de La Chapelle is surrounded by highways, warehouses, canals, and multiple railway tracks. Not to mention the construction site for the new Arena — where the badminton, para-taekwondo, and para-badminton competitions will take place during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024 — and the Condorcet campus, which is expected to accommodate 3,500 students in humanities starting in 2025. It's a chaotic mix where adding a patch of greenery seems complicated.