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In the search for green spaces, Paris revives an old rail track

Paris has fewer green spaces than London, Madrid or Berlin, and in the search for more of them as summers become increasingly hot, portions of a disused, overgrown circular railway line around the capital are being opened to the public. 

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11 September 2023 à 19h49

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Across the street from a block of dense office buildings in western Paris, Bernard Sokler was surrounded by trees, weeds and crickets, as he tended to a bush of purple wildflowers in a largely forgotten strip of land, reports The New York Times.

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