Bla bla bla bla bla....
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Originally Posted by Mercutio
The City of Paris is actually losing population.
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It is wrong.
Since the 2000's the population of inner Paris grow.
and don't forget that inner Paris has less than 20% of Paris urban area population.
The dense part of the urban area form a city of 6.7 million inhabitants
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Paris and Rome, which have almost entirely preserved centres
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, that's depend the district.
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You get the impression that if they were the mayor they would knock down all the beautiful old districts and rebuild then in concrete and glass and Starbucks or whatever else they feel they need to prove the city is "modern". People like that don't appreciate what they have.
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I like the old districts, but you get the impression that Paris is entierely old wich is false.
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It's the desperation of his constantly trying to prove that Paris is modern and cool - and and his seeming hatred of the real Paris - the Paris that is loved by almost everyone
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If it is not the case 90% of world big cities aren't cool
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his seeming hatred of the real Paris - the Paris that is loved by almost everyone
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Mercurio if you have lived in Paris you show know the Eiffle Tower/Arc Du Triomphe/Louvre is not the real Paris. Parisians don't go here. Bercy is more the real paris than the Louvre.
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Originally Posted by Mercutio
. The City of London is the densest place in Europe in terms of building density, daytime population, and commerical space.
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The City of London is les than 1% of London, so it don't represent the entire city.
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Originally Posted by Mercutio
London has a much larger E/SE Asian community than Paris and the only Chinatown that is really worthy of the name. I think Olympiades is ugly and bleak.
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London has more south asian but Paris has more east asian, even chinese sites said this.
Actually the oldest chinatown of Paris was distroyed in the 1980's, the second oldest is not atractive and become less active, Olympiade become much and much vibran every years, and with the newest subway station Olympiade it will be faster. The other chinatown is in Belleville, you ask Kilegoretrout (Canadian who as visited the ethnic district of London and Paris) about it.
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Neither Manhattan nor any part of central Paris have such a large shopping, nightlife, and entertainment district as London's West End. The West End has no parallels anywhere in the western world. Shinjuku and Shibuya in Tokyo are the only comparable districts on the same scale that I've seen elsewhere in the world
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In this message I just see a blatant chauvinism.
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Paris has rallied against Frankfurt but seems to have fallen further behind London. As a financial centre it is now certainly less important than Hong Kong and will probably be overtaken by Dubai and Singapore before long
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This situation will change since Sarkozy does not like to see this.
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I think Paris is in a much better situation than Venice but it doesn't have as many options as London or New York. That's the issue here.
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Who know ? with a big financial crisi maybe.
The only fact that I see is that Mercurio hasn't been in Paris since a long time.
The problem of Mercurio is for prove that London is cool (That's everyone know) he should bash Paris and New York.
London has the best.....
London is the biggest....
London is better than........
London is......
And I know that Mercurio don't hate Paris, in some could be very positive about it (even in economy) but not he speaks of London.
I haven't created to prove that Paris is cooler than London or the oposite. It was just for show that the general vision of Paris is wrong.