IV.4.3.g. MORE GIFTS FROM CITY HALL

A 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)...

Aerial view of Paris, 1958, Musée Carnavalet / zoom

Under construction, 2019

Since 2021

Trip Advisor /zoom

 

Columns of colored lights illuminate the garden at night.

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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...

 Bibliothèque d'Italie

213 boulevard Vincent Auriol

At place d'Italie

The Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Melville

 At métro Olympiades 

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

 The children's floor

Voting for the "Participatory Budge" (please scroll down).

Entry and exit

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Authorities who consult and inform

• "The future central garden in 4 key points" 

In the background, the original 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.

In front of City Hall, September, 2024

Almost 3,300 projects have been realized since it 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 greetings for New Year, 2025,

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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IV.4.

The future springs up from behind