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What would locals like others know about Paris? Presenting relevant links in a somewhat random fashion:
Headlines
Paris’ famous Champs-Élysées set for green transformation – CNN
Coronavirus: Paris to shut bars and raise alert to maximum – BBC
The invisible city beneath Paris – New Yorker
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground
Paris Metro Map – The Redesign
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/11/17/m6b2-tower-biodiversity-maison-edouard-francois-plant-covered-housing-block-paris-france
http://www.pierrelexcellent.com/2016/10/edouard-francois-tour-de-la-biodiversite-m6b2-a-paris
http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/the-sporting-star-who-fell-to-earth.html
http://www.creativeboom.com/photography/neglected-utopia-photographer-explores-the-forgotten-modernist-estates-of-paris
13 months: how long it will take Paris to recover – Telegraph
http://www.france24.com/en/20150926-paris-car-free-sunday-pollution-hidalgo-september-27
http://soundlandscapes.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/soundwalking-in-paris-with-antonella-radicchi
http://soundlandscapes.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/rue-vavin-a-soundwalk
http://maptia.com/mikeachim/stories/how-to-panic-your-way-across-paris
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2014/02/paris-mayoral-candidate-has-big-plans-citys-old-metro-stations/8324
http://www.gourmandemom.com/twelve/2013/06/the-dinner-party-technology-cookeningcom-innovation-technology-and-the-sharing-economy-in-france.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-poole/my-little-paris-startup_b_1691412.html
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20120605-the-great-outdoors-in-urban-paris
Parks
parisinfo.com
tous-les-horaires
Wikipedia
Luxembourg Gardens (Jardin de Luxembourg)
open air museum of XIXth century sculpture
senat.fr
Wikipedia
Current Time
Paris
If it is 4pm in Paris, what time is it elsewhere?
Flickr Groups
Current events in Paris
Twitter
@soundlandscapes
@LaTourEiffel
Recommended listening
Designing Grand Cities: what we can learn from Paris – In the late 90s, the French government announced a visionary consultation inviting ten multi-disciplinary teams, led by architects, to completely re-imagine Paris as a sustainable 21st century metropolis.
Music of the metro – Among the millions of passengers riding the Paris Metro each day are the city’s musicians, who squeeze their instruments through the ticket gates to busk in the subways.
Videos
Eiffel Tower
Is it Illegal to Take Photographs of the Eiffel Tower at Night?
Do Night Photos of the Eiffel Tower Violate Copyright?
Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel
@LaTourEiffel
Elsewhere on the Web
parisisinvisible.blogspot.com.au
Affordable Paris
http://www.parisgreeter.fr
http://www.pari-roller.com
Paris: Sustainable Tourism Destination
Paris Info
nolovelocks.com
soundlandscapes.wordpress.com – @soundlandscapes
Louvre
louvre.fr
@MuseeLouvre
Champs-Élysées
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es
http://www.champselysees.org
http://www.monument-paris.com/champs-elysees.htm
Where to eat
http://cinq-mars-restaurant.com
http://www.frenchie-restaurant.com
Bikes
Velib.paris
TripAdvisor
Things to do in Paris
Luxembourg Gardens
Espaces d’Abraxas
Iconic designs: Espaces d’Abraxas – The development’s muted colour palette, from grey to pale pink, gives it a mysterious air, a fantasy bastion with a filmset quality; which is why it was used in films like The Hunger Games and Terry Gilliam’s dystopian Brazil.
Noisy-le-Grand – Wikipedia
Embedded Tweets
Wikipedia
Paris
Montparnasse Cemetery
Celebrations
Features
Planeta.com