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Pocket Gardens Sprout on Paris’s Anti-Parking Posts
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A 'Potogreen' in Paris. Photo: Anne Mazauric via Paule Kingleur.
Necessary as they are to keep cars from blocking the sidewalk, anti-parking posts, or bollards, can be an ugly sight in a city. Parisian artist Paule Kingleur has commandeered some of the 335,000 posts in the French capital as sites for hanging micro-gardens -- what she calls a neighborhood "vegetable insurrection."...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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No renderings here: the banks of Lyon's Rhône River have served as a public park since 2007. Photos: Alex Davies
Recently, the idea of reconnecting cities with their rivers has gotten pretty popular. Since February, we've covered announcements from Paris, London, New York and Minneapolis that they will be kicking out cars in favor of parks for pedestrians and cyclists, and have featured some very sexy renderings. But while the futures of the the Seine, Thames, East, Hudson and Mississippi Rivers are bright, none of them can match Lyon's Rhône River.
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