Word: haussmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris, pro-Iraqi Palestinians struck while Arafat was in Havana attending a Cuban-sponsored world youth festival. Storming Arab League headquarters on Boulevard Haussmann, two gunmen shot their way into the offices of the P.L.O. One of them killed Ezzedin Kalak, 40, a close friend of Arafat's, as well as Kalak's assistant, Hammad Adnan...
...Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann tore up much of the medieval town and started creating his city of symmetry, parks and long vistas...
...Like Haussmann's work in its time, the new changes are stirring some impassioned outcries. Last year 100,000 Frenchmen petitioned in vain to save Les Halles, the old central food market that Emile Zola described as "the belly of Paris." The market has now been moved to more functional quarters in the suburbs, near Orly airport, and a giant commercial center called the Plateau Beaubourg will rise in place of the old vegetable stands. Last month there were demonstrations against plans for an expressway along the Left Bank. "Today for the first time within memory," says Etienne Mallet...
...France," Baron Haussmann said confidently in 1859, "a good act well explained is always an act sanctioned." Alas, not all of the present planners' changes are "good acts." Nor do they all cohere. Where Haussmann had almost dictatorial control over his efforts, six separate government agencies share responsibility for the present rebuilding program. As a result of poor coordination, mistakes do happen, like the 35-acre Maine-Montparnasse project. It violates the intent of the Grand Design by adding to an already congested part of Paris 1,000 apartments and offices for 7,000 workers in a 62-story...
...Haussmann had taste as well as authority. His successors often lack his sense of design. Most of the new buildings are as bland and expressionless as a child's wooden blocks. (The new sports stadium at Pare des Princes in Boulogne is an exception.) Commented L'Express: "There is no excuse for the wretchedness of French architecture...