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...still largely drawn along the imperial lines laid down by Parisian prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had very clear ideas of just what a Parisian building ought to look like. Now that classic picture is being challenged by Haussmann's 21st century successor, Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoë. He believes that Paris, one of the most densely populated major cities in Europe, just might need skyscrapers. In recent months he has deliberately kindled a debate about lifting rules in place since the 1970s that limit the height of new buildings to 37 m - and as little...
...Delanoë aims to pack a lot into the 105 sq km of Paris proper. He campaigned in 2001 on a promise to provide an additional 3,500 social-housing units a year. He wants more jobs in Paris, where the unemployment rate is over 10%. He wants more bike trails, more green space, more child-care facilities. If in the process he can get a signature building or two - a Gehry, or a Norman Foster like London's Swiss Re tower - so much the better. But it won't happen soon. "Now we're taking care of the garden...
...which height restrictions didn't apply. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the proposal to raise the roofs of Paris comes not from greedy developers, but from the first leftist mayor Paris has had since the commune of 1871. A Socialist but no ideologue, Delanoë has appealed to the so-called Bobo set - the "bourgeois bohemians" - by promoting bicycles and buses, installing a sandy beach along the Seine in the summer and promising a more approachable and responsible city administration. He has become one of France's most popular Socialist office holders, and controls...
With the impending return of sophomore intercollegiate No. 15 Moira Weigel and junior intercollegiate No. 24 Laura Delano, the middle of the Harvard lineup will be further strengthened...
Bajwa said he was unsure how exactly he would shuffle the returning veterans into the ladder with the rookies. Weigel and Delano spent most of their playing time last year at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively...