The changing face of Paris and its suburbs

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Meet Simon Kuper, a British (and naturalized French) journalist in Paris.

He talks of how the changing face of Paris and its suburbs - and his new book Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century.

Find out more about Simon and his work on his Twitter profile here.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, Oliver G here from The Yearful Tower podcast.
0:03.6	This is a show about Paris, and it is brought to you by Patreon supporters all around the world.
0:10.2	Thank you to all you members.
0:12.3	Patreon.com slash the Earful Tower.
0:14.7	Speaking of Paris, you ever thought this is a bit of an impossible city?
0:20.3	Well, you might just have something in
0:22.6	common with Simon Cooper, a British man turned Parisian, who is today's podcast guest. He's written
0:28.3	a new book, Impossible City, Paris in the 21st century. And I welcome him now in the studio to talk
0:35.5	about life over 25 years in the city of Light, how it's changed,
0:40.0	and what's in store, not just for the Olympics, but the future.
0:44.6	Here comes Simon Cooper on the Eiffel Tower.
1:03.3	Music Simon Cooper, welcome to the studio.
1:04.3	Thank you.
1:04.9	How are you doing?
1:08.6	I am between London and Paris a lot these days, and so I'm always slightly confused which city I'm in.
1:11.0	Uh-huh. Do you need a clue? Give me a clue. Uh, you're cycled here and it felt dangerous, or could
1:16.7	that be both? It could be both, but yes, it was Paris. I felt particularly dangerous because my
1:21.4	break was not working properly, so I am very happy to be here. We could get into, we could start with cycling actually because that's a really, that's a big part of Paris right now.
1:30.8	You talk about it in your book, your new book, which we're going to be talking about, Impossible City, sitting in front of me right now.
1:35.6	How much has the city changed with cycles, with bicycles?
1:39.4	It has been quite a massive change.
1:41.7	I read the other day there's 50% more bikes than cars in Paris now.
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