...Unfortunately I don't always have my camera with me, so I have a few pictures taken with my phone. I've decided to share some.
I've taken those pictures during October November, December 2019 and January 2020.
It was mainly during my average day, so it's mostly in the south of Inner Paris.
Don't try to see any monuments, here it's average life Paris.
A mix of ancient and modern developments.
We began with a walk from Place d'Italie to Denfert Rochereaux in the south of Central Paris in October 2019.
1. This area retened its "less" urban caractere later than other part of Inner Paris and was the perfect place for the urban renwal plan during the 1960s 1970s.
Boulevard Auguste Blanqui by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Corvisart by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Paul Gervais by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue de la Glacière by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard Saint-Jacques by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
6. Some "Faubourien" buildings. Until the mid the 19th century Faubourg meant suburbs. It was districts outside the walled city. Those districts often developed with small 2 to 4 storeys building with retails on ground floors along the main roads leaving the city. Those had a lot of commercial activity because outside the city tax zone.
Some taller buildings have been added later in the 20th century.
Rue de la Santé by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Dareau by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Dareau by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Dareau by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Emile Dubois by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Dareau by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
12. An old farm, the only witness of the agricultural past of the area. It's in a curious case, it's "protected" but abandoned and there were able to built new residential buildings in part of this lot.
Ferme de Montsouris by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
13. Contrast between the little alley and an office building from the 60s under renovation.
Villa Saint-Jacques by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Jean-Claude Arnould by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
15. After some shopping on Avenue du General Leclerc, near Denfert-Rochereau
Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
16. This avenue is a mix of faubourien, haussmannian and later 20th century architectures.
Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
I decided to see the newly opened extension of Paris tram line T1. It's a very short extension of just one station from the metro station to a busy intersection in the northwestern inner suburbs of Asnieres-sur-Seine
17. Metro station of the line 13, this station opened in june 2008.
Les Courtilles, metro ligne 13 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Les Courtilles by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Les Courtilles by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Extension tram ligne T1 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
19. Despite just being just before the end station, it's still pretty busy
T1 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
20. The T1 is the oldest tram line in Paris, it opened in 1992 and it has a dailyridership of over 200,000 passengers.
Asnieres Quatre Routes by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
21.The tram line will later being extended further west to Nanterre,
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Asnieres Quatre Routes by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
23. I took the tram T1 backward to La Courneuve in northern inner suburbs.
Place du 8 Mai 1945, La Courneuve by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
24. I wanted to take pictures of the newly enlarged platforms of the tram station but there were plenty of shady caracteres selling counterfeited cigarettes, so I preferred to abstain.
Place du 8 Mai 1945, La Courneuve by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
25. This metro station of the line 7 opened in 1987
La Courneuve 8 Mai 1945, metro ligne 7 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
26. Gare de l'Est metro station in Central Paris with a refurbished train and the new color. Trains used to be blue then a green livery from 1992 and back to blue again.
Gare de l'Est, metro ligne 7 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
27. Cross platform transfer with line 5. cross platform transfer is pretty rare in Paris.
Gare de l'Est, metro ligne 7 et ligne 5 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
28. Paris metro can be both incredibly ancient, quite look outdated but with modern features. Here the installation of platform doors at Reaumur Sebastopol station on line 4. This line will become driverless, the third one in Paris after line 14 (1998) and line 1 (2011).
Reaumur Sebastopol, metro ligne 4 by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
A big transportation strike during the month of December, while my metro line was working during morning rush hour, I've took my morning and so I went to my work by walking.
29. HBM (Immeuble Bon Marché). Cheap rent buildings built during the 1920s and 1930s.
Rue d'Alesia, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Vergniaud, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Martin Bernard, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Bobillot, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue d'Italie, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Cantagrel, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard Vincent Auriol, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue du Chevaleret, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue du Chevaleret by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue de Domremy by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue de France, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
39. Limited service on the RER B.
Chatelet-les-Halles, RER B by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
Some shopping in a suburban shopping mall on sunday.
40. From one of the parking garage of Belle Epine shopping mall in southern inner suburbs
Parking Belle Epine, Thiais by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
41. Belle Epine is one of the many large shopping malls built in Paris suburbs during the 1970s.
Belle Epine, Thiais by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Belle Epine, Thiais by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
43. Back home with some pretty heavy traffic
N186, Rungis by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
44. The bridge was built for the tram T7.
N186, Rungis by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
45. Here a view of the freeway A6 linking Paris to the south of France
A6, Fresnes by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
46. Leaving the freeway A86 in Antony for the former nation road N20.
A86, Antony by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
47. In Bourg la Reine, the former highway N20 splits into two parts.
Avenue du General Leclerc, Bourg-la-Reine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
48. The town center of Bourg-la-Reine
Avenue du General Leclerc, Bourg-la-Reine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du General Leclerc, Bourg-la-Reine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
50. After Bourg-la-Reine in the suburbs of Bagneux (right) and Cachan (left).
Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux, Cachan by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
51. The surrounding of the old national roads is often pretty ugly. Many car oriented retails, cheap housings and offices. Not very pedestrian friendly.
Here the neighborhood is being redeveloped with the construction of a new subway line.
Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux, Cachan by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
52. A modern elevation of an older building.
Elevation was pretty common before WW2, it fades away in the second half of the 20th century and then again it's increasingly more and more popular.
Rue Boussingault, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue de Tolbiac, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
54. The big concrete slab that cover train tracks, buildings will be built above it. In a dense city like Paris, every space count.
Rue Jeanne Chauvin, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Albert Einstein, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
56. Duo skyscrapers. The taller one (180m or 590ft is the tallest building built in Inner Paris since 1973)
Boulevard du General d'Armee Jean Simon, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard du General d'Armee Jean Simon, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
58. The large brutalist building in the back is the largest fire brigade station in Paris.
Boulevard Massena, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du Maine, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du Maine, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du Maine, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du Maine, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
66. A former urban shopping mall being demolished and replaced with a mixed use development including offices, housings and a large shopping mall. The tower is the Hotel Pullmann Montparnasse, the third biggest hotel in Paris. It's currently closed for renovation.
Avenue du Maine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
67. Few years prior, there was a small cinema theater.
This kind of development would have been impossible few years in the past because of some rules that defined a maximum density.
Many old small building couldn't be demolished because with those former rules developpers would have had to built less square footage. Not anymore.
70 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue de la Tombe Issoire, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard Auguste Blanqui, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
70. This housing block has been elevated, they added two stories.
Rue Vergniaud, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue le Dantec, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue d'Italie, 13e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
73. A little tour in the Christmas market in La Defense, it's the largest in Paris.
La Défense, marché de Noel by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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La Défense, marché de Noel by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
74. A few years ago, there was a small two storey buildings there.
Avenue de l'Observatoire, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard du Montparnasse, 6e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Leopold Robert, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
78. An other day, an other arrondissement. I walked around the former Boucicault hospital.
Rue de Lourmel, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
78. This old church was part of the former hospital
Allee Irene Nemirovsky, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue des Cevennes, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
80. This kind of dense development remind me the residential area of Italian cities.
Italian cities have seen a huge population boom during the 20th century until the 1970s. So outside the old historic core, it often full of dense housing developement. France until WW2 was growing at a slower place and when France population boomed, it choose suburbanisation (both housing blocks and single familly houses) instead of density. Those kind of dense 20th century urbanity is rarer unlike Spain or Italy or Greece.
Rue de Lourmel, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
81. Even in the upper middle class and wealthy 15th arrondissement, you can found some housing projects.
Rue Varet, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
82. A stand alone Haussmannian building
Avenue Felix Faure, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue Felix Faure, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
84. I wonder why they built those office buildings so low.
Rue Louis Armand, 15e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
Welcome in 2020
85. Montrouge, where I live. It's one of the densest municipalities in France.
Rue Henri Ginoux, Montrouge by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Henri Ginoux, Montrouge by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
87. Not so far away in the 14th arrondissement. I wonder how long those small buildings will stand.
Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
88. I went to the north of Inner Paris, in the 18th arrondissement. Rue Marx Dormoy.
Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
89. Old buildings recently demolished, soon to be replaced with more housings.
Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
90. Here, we see the result of the former density maximum law, they build at a lower height than the neighboring building. This one didn't age well depsite being only 10 years old. Wooden shutter don't resist to the wet weather and polution.
Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Philippe de Girard, 18e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
93. Ivry-sur(Seine in the southeastern inner suburbs.
Boulevard Paul Vaillant Couturier, Ivry-sur-Seine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
94. Redevelopment of a former industrial area along the Seine river.
Boulevard du Colonel Fabien, Ivry-sur-Seine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard du Colonel Fabien, Ivry-sur-Seine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Place Gambetta, Ivry-sur-Seine by
Minato ku, sur Flickr