VIlI.7. MORE GIFTS FROM CITY HALL

RENEWED INFRASTRUCTURE AND A CITY HALL THAT CONSULTS AND INFORMS

(SOCIAL DEMOCRAT SINCE 2001)  

Place d'Italie: enlarged toward 1850 to assemble troops, then a roundabout, now a garden (for this evolution, please click and scroll down)...

Under construction, 2019

City Hall

Since 2021

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Although there's been a library since the 1970s, a multi-media center was open in 1989 and renovated in 2019...

The Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Melville

 At métro Olympiades 

A section in Chinese. There is also one in Vietnamese.

 A full floor for children

Announcements

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For the environment (in 2025)

•  Bus run by electricity 

• Among the many examples of greening, the passage between parc de Choisy and a field for sports 

Seen from parc de Choisy 

Passed as you walk along the passage

     

The passage now

The transformed passage 

was open to the public on the morning

of the Festival Grand Finale

(June 28, 2005)

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Authorities consult and inform:

• "The future central garden in 4 key points" 

In the background, the first library

 "Meet your municipal team" /  "Meet your municipal police"  

Voting for the "Participatory budget" in front of City Hall: Residents propose and select 25% of the City's investment funds for projects in culture, sports, the environment or health.

Almost 3,300 projects have been realized in the City-wide program that began in 2014. For the "Arch of Fraternity" in the Asian neighborhood please click here, and for a grand mural that evokes La Commune, here and scroll down.  

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The mayor was re-elected in a landslide.  

(In 2020)

Merci! Sign pasted over the rival candidate's panel 

His New Year greetings

express a philosophy that he puts in practice.

"In these troubled times, I do not forget

the values that unite us and notably fraternity.

Excellent and happy 2025!"

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VIII.8.

The future springs up from behind