MORE GIFTS FROM CITY HALL

INFRASTRUCTURE, THE ARTS AND POWER THAT CONSULTS AND INFORMS  

(SINCE 2001) 

Building

• Place d'Italie: expanded to mass troops toward 1850, then a roundabout, now another park 

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In 2016

Being built, 2019 

The place now, with colored lights at night

• Although the district has had a library since 1970, a multi-media center was opened 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 

      

Left, announcement of free French classes, written in several languages. Right, announcement of library digital resources and of free loans of digital books, video games, musical instruments [...]

"Chinese resources"

The arts

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The YouTube video shows murals that have become symbols of the 13th. 

A sculpture hovers over the mall.

Courant d'art frais ("Breath of fresh art") a non-profit for which City Hall covers the salaries of two organizers, who create giant puppets with families' help and give street performances (these photos taken on a Saturday afternoon at the Olympiades plaza).   

Accessible power 

   

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

The original library is in the background.

The announcement behind the motorcycles reads, "The future central garden in four key points."

The mayor was re-elected in a landslide.  

(In 2020)

"64 %. Merci!" Sign pasted over the rival candidate's panel  

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Think of the Versaillais shell

that fell in the courtyard of the original building...

...and of the struggles for social justice

that led to the 13th now 

"The future does not come from before to meet us,

 but comes streaming up from behind."

-- Rahel Levin

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IV.4.3.
The obscure 13th, home base for a stay?