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The City of Lights Is About to Go Dark
Starting in 2013, Paris will shut off all neon lights between 1 and 7 a.m. Will it kill the city's famous nightlife?
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Videos
9 Years Later, Nobody Misses the Concorde
In hindsight, supersonic commercial travel turned out to be a very brief period in the history of aviation.
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Hitler Pond to Judas Creek: A Brief History of Controversial Place Names
As Russia considers reviving "Stalingrad," we scan the map for other unsavory historical figures.
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How France Built Inequality Into Its Cities
Planners have created isolated urban enclaves that keep the country’s immigrant population separate.
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Inside the International Fight Over the Paris Skyline
Moscow is reportedly putting diplomatic pressure on French President Francois Hollande to allow an orthodox cathedral near the Seine.
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Can You Tell a City By Its Blocks?
What if blocks could be extracted, stripped of all but their essential form, and lined up for inspection? Would we know a place by the sum of its parts?
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The Homogenization of the Global Music Festival
Pitchfork Paris is a lot more Pitchfork than Paris.
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Photos
A Paris Park Morphs Into a Forest of Screaming Gargoyles
Now these are some trees with personality.
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Architects Dream Up an Urban Moon Bounce for Paris
A design for an inflatable bridge at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
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For the Discerning Brutalist, Here's Some Concrete Furniture
Note to movers: Lift from the knees.
