Paris' Grand Plan to Become Europe's Greenest City

Executive Producer and Narrator - Fred Mills
Producer - Adam Savage
Video Editing and Graphics - Thomas Canton

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[Alex-ixoi]

Paris is already beautiful, but adding greenery anywhere just makes places look so much nicer!

[Gokun]

"motorist fear being squeezed out of public spaces" yeah thats kinda the point mate.

[emilyarchibald]

I love hearing about environmentally friendly construction.

[damondominique]

Living here in Paris is such an odd juxtaposition. Half of French administration is unnecessarily slow and the other half gets sh*t done!!! I have noticed a drastic difference in improvements over the past 10 years!!! 🏆

[MZ]

This sounds like a fantastic project, every major city in the world should be considering projects like this

[FurtivePenguin]

Im a french citizen and i was aware of the Paris Green Project but i wasn't aware what was to be expected. I learned more about this in 5 min than ever xD Great content btw keep going !

Edit : thx for all the likes lol, first time for me to be that famous

[bernddamian]

There’s nothing sweeter than being able to afford the luxury of traveling to different locations as enchanting and beautiful as this

[jebbo-cl]

I'd argue Paris has one of the most ambitious liveable city movements in Europe. Not many places are moving as fast as them regarding e.g cycling infrastructure atm

[nathanieldrew]

Woooo!! Can’t wait for that new green space!

[nicolasblume]

0:38 this statistic is extremely misleading! The main reason the percentage is so low is that only a fraction of the metropolitan area is actually Paris.
They just never expanded the official borders. (almost)

If you only measure the central area of other cities, their percentage will also drop significantly

[jamescooperjc]

"It wouldn't have looked great if the city where a historic agreement took place did nothing to tackle its pollution and traffic"... Glasgow I'm looking at you! In a city that still has no public transport after midnight and a motorway ripping through it, I hope COP26 gives us the boost we need to make our 'Green Place' (Literally what Glasgow means) beautiful and sustainable again.

[PATAPOE]

If anyone is curious to know, the last aerial shot of the video is actually from Versailles city, where we can see a part of the immense royal garden on the left as well as the Cathédrale Saint Louis on the right.
Versailles is an already quite green and appreciated alternative to Paris, with no less than 3 different subway lines to go to the french capital.

[ivishnukn]

Can't wait. Looks stunning. Watch and learn Central Vista!

[christopherborsellino]

Wow...nice to see that the city of Paris is moving forward with this beautification project. I have never beeen to Paris, but it looks like a wonderful place to explore.

[PtolemyVV]

Regarding other greenspace areas in other cities, Athens is building one of the largest parks (called Hellinikon) in the world in its city consisting of 6.5 million m2 and costing 8 billion euro, finishing in 2nd half of 2020s.

[Celis.C]

Here's hoping they'll reach their ultimate ambitious goal.

The video sparked a question in my mind, one that might suit this channel very well: if we were to build a completely new city, what would be some key design philosophies and urban development standards to make it navigable, efficient and worth living in?

[rahhuuuu]

well the difference with other European cities isn’t very fair since Paris area is very small. If you add the huge parcs across the city it could easily gain 10% of green space. I’m talking about le “champ de Vincennes”, “bois de Boulogne”.

[guldklimp]

The percentage of Green spaces is wrong though. Just the two big parks (bois de Boulogne et bois de Vincennes) make up 17, 5 % of the city area. If you add the other parks it's of course much more. And still, that is just the commune de Paris, which basicly is just the city center (compared to London and other cities who include villa suburbs).
That being Said, I'm looking forward to this change!

[jaredgi]

If you’re gonna compare London (sprawl) with Paris, you need to compare it with Grand Paris, that is, what includes the surrounding inner ring banlieues (92-93-94), otherwise it’s a stupid comparison. Paris is packed with squares (small parks) all over the residential areas that every Parisian can get to by walking. Don’t compare apples and oranges. London is a sprawl akin to New York, and it includes a ton of areas that wouldn’t be inside of Paris, but just outside in the inner ring banlieues. That’s why it has more green space. It’s ridiculous to compare the two about this.

[jerooo]

You should do a video about the Oosterweelverbinding in Antwerp. It's probably the biggest construction project in the BENELUX right now