Grand Paris (Greater Paris) is the name of an urban renewal plan aimed to improve the transport links and housing stock of the French capital and its suburbs conceived by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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The plan was first announced on 17 September 2007 during the inauguration of "La Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine", when Sarkozy declared his intent to create a "new comprehensive development project for Greater Paris". The project is proceeding under the supervision of the French state, the City of Paris, the Regional Authority of the Île de France and the Île de France Mayoral Association, being led by architect Paul Chemetov and geographer Michel Lussault, while the Minister of Culture and Communication is charged with coordinating the consultation process.[1]
In 2008 Sarkozy launched an international urban and architectural competition for the future development of metropolitan Paris. Ten teams gathering architects, urban planners, geographers, landscape architects will offer their vision for building a Paris metropolis of the 21st century in the post-Kyoto era and make a prospective diagnosis for Paris and its suburbs that will define future developments in Greater Paris for the next 40 years.[1]
The architects in the project are: Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc, Antoine Grumbach, Roland Castro, Yves Lion, Djamel Klouche, Richard Rogers, Bernardo Secchi, Paola Vigano, Finn Geipel, Giulia Andi and Winy Maas.[2]
Originally the plan was also concerned with reorganising the local administration of Paris, by creating an integrated urban community encompassing the City of Paris and the surrounding Petite Couronne,[3] but this part was later abandoned because it proved unpopular with the mayors and local councils of the Île de France region.[4]
An exhibition titled "Le Grand Pari de l'agglomeration parisienne" will present the results of the consultation process from 29 April to 22 November 2009.[1]
The transport plan will be carried out in ten years, at a cost of 35 billion euros funded by the state, local governments and public-private partnerships.[5] An important part of the project is a driverless subway linking important business and residential poles such as Versailles and the Charles de Gaulle airport but also banlieues like Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois through a figure-eight track 140 km long and operating 24-hour, which will alone cost 21 billion euros. Another 14 billion will be spent in the extension and re-equipment of existing metro, regional and suburban lines.[6]
Sarkozy declared his intent of building 70,000 new homes a year in the region, to gradually cover a total requirement of 1.5 million by 2030. Current regulations do not allow for the creation of towers above 37 meters in Paris without a special permission,[5] but Sarkozy said he's not opposed to tall buildings “so long as it’s beautiful”.[4]
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