Mayor Anne Hidalgo has floated a plan to “revegetate” 500 Parisian streets to make the city more liveable. Critics say it would deepen divides between urbanites and commuters.
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Edit: about ⅔ voted in favor
Critics say it would deepen divides between urbanites and commuters
Yes it will, which is why Paris needs political unification. These policies only apply to the commune of Paris, while the rest (which is the majority of urban population) still suffers bad urbanism. The divide is exploited to drive a wedge and get anti-urbanist politicians elected in the rest of Ile de France.
Edit: for a clarification this is how the urban population of Greater Paris is divided
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Île-de-France#Petite_CouronneJust to expand on this. Grand Paris, which is Petite Couronne and some other municipalities bordering it, is about as large in areas as Berlin, but with nearly twice the population for example. So we are not talking about some rural or suburban part of the France.
Also it is a general French problem of not adjusting city boundaries for ages. Large French cities rarely have a border with a municipality, which is actually rural.
