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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Capital gains: How Paris is getting it right

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Paris is like Marmite – you either love it or you hate it. But it’s changing. Physically, through massive expansions in social housing and transport and a €40bn shot of investment, but also politically and psychologically. People are even smiling in the streets these days. Ros Taylor talks to Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, about how the French capital is transforming in the lead up to this year’s Olympics.  • “One thing that globalisation does is it removes these weird localities – and in Paris, that locality was rudeness.” – Simon Kuper • “Paris is trying to become London with the bad bits left out.” - Simon Kuper  Buy Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast    Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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1:15.1

Ros Taylor. It's springtime and I'm not in Paris always a source of regret to me ever

1:20.4

since I lived there for a brief six months in 1996. But the F.T. columnist Simon

1:25.4

Cooper does live there and he's here to tell us about how the city has transformed

1:30.1

in the 21st century and is changing again for the Olympics. That's the topic of his new book

1:35.5

Impossible City. Welcome to the bunker Simon. Thanks. This is not one of those books that

1:42.4

idealizes the French capital at all, but it's also a tradition of books that try to explain the French to the British.

1:50.0

Do you like Paris?

1:52.0

I usually like Paris. I often find it extremely irritating and drives me wild especially when I'm trying to

2:00.0

Cycle and not get mowed down and the rudeness has got much better. So I veer between loving it and just wanting to leave tomorrow morning.

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