From Gotham City to Mega City One to New York and Tokyo - since the creation of the comic book - the landscape of the city has facinated authors. So what are the links between architecture and the comic? A new exhibition here in Paris is exploring the relationship between the two. It's called “Archi and BD”, or “Architecture and Comics.”
Will you have to pay if you drive your car to visit the Eiffel Tower? An amendment to a parliamentary bill is proposing that French towns with a population of over 300,000 inhabitants set up tolls to access historical centres.
Tonight the France 24 debate is focused on the Shanghai World Expo, to be officially launched this Friday. Will the planning experiments of the not-too-distant past be avoided by the new thinking and new ideas of the architects of tomorrow? Or will the plans for a brave new world of town living result in the same sad results?
Tonight the France 24 debate is focused on the Shanghai World Expo, to be officially launched this Friday. Will the planning experiments of the not-too-distant past be avoided by the new thinking and new ideas of the architects of tomorrow? Or will the plans for a brave new world of town living result in the same sad results?
In France, agricultural land is receding at an alarming rate: an estimated 200 hectares disappears every day. A problem likely to increase as the population booms. The UN estimates that by 2050 there will be 3 billion more humans on earth and, for the first time ever, most of the world's population will live in urban areas.
As Dubai reaches for the sky with the world's tallest ever building we're going to be looking at whether or not skyscrapers can ever be environmentally up to scratch.
We follow a landscape gardener who specialises in urban gardens on a tour of a green terrace in Paris - a corner of paradise for urban dwellers harassed by noise and pollution.
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