Anne Hidalgo and Norman Foster on Urban Transformation: Reducing Traffic Key to Public Space Design
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Former Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, speaking at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Madrid, shared her strategy for cleaning the Seine River for swimming, rooted in her childhood love of swimming in Spain. Along with architect Norman Foster, she emphasized that successful urban transformation requires reducing traffic and rethinking public space design.
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It was there where she cultivated the love of swimming that led her to pursue making the Seine in Paris clean enough to swim.
Hidalgo and Norman Foster pointed to a shared strategy behind their successful visions for transforming cities.
In a mayoral forum, Anne Hidalgo and Norman Foster pointed to a shared strategy behind their successful visions for transforming cities.
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