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Paris Urban Planning

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As the largest city in France with a 10.8 million population (“The World Factbook: France”, 2017), Paris has been ranked number four according the global power city index measured by Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation (2017). Moreover, as one of the most visited city in the world (Millington, 2017), proper urban planning in Paris seems to be required in order to maintain an appropriate balance between the large amount of tourists’ influx and the residents’ living quality. Based on Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004), the movie conveyed several perspectives that could potentially impact the urban planning of Paris. This paper would be analyzing the following aspects in order to emphasize the importance of urban planning in such a megacity: the concept of city sustainability, the mixed-use concept within the city, and the importance of open space. An insight on the relation between urban planning and vulnerability towards terrorism attack would also be discussed.
The concept of urban sustainability stemmed from the expectation of large population influx within the next 50 years to major cities. If no sustainable plans were implemented prior to the population growth, the sudden increase in carbon footprint, household and transportation greenhouse gases, and so on could potentially worsen some severe global phenomena such as climate change or extreme weather conditions (Kammen & Sunter, 2016). As a result, in major cities like Paris, the integration of

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