Are you talking about the hypothesis where the opposition, so the right, for example, would come to power in Paris? No one really knows what a new team that strongly combats the record of the current majority would decide to do upon its arrival. What you need to know, however, is that a revision of the local town planning plan (the PLU) – the document which sets out how to build and develop the city for the next fifteen to twenty years – is a very cumbersome and very long process. There, he has just finished. It was adopted on Wednesday November 20 by the Paris Council, after four and a half years of work. And it hadn’t been revised since 2006.
As for the pedestrianization of roads on the banks, a measure which has been very controversial, and strongly opposed by the opposition, I am not sure – but I know nothing – that a new majority will take the decision to return elsewhere. This would have gone in the opposite direction of urban history, of what is happening elsewhere, in the metropolises. Because this limitation of the place of the car in the city, this rebalancing made for the benefit of pedestrians, bicycles, and other movements, is a movement which crosses many large Western cities.
As for the greening of public space, and an encouragement to green this very mineral city, as much as possible, in particular thanks to these new town planning rules, it must be reiterated that the climate of 2050 will not at all be the same as that of today, and that there is an urgency to adapt urban spaces to these major changes. Otherwise, there is a risk that cities will become unlivable for their inhabitants.
