On the Transforming City

Listen to a conversation about Paris, bikes, the Olympics and more with urbanist Brent Longley

Photo: Slate, that accompanies the piece “How Paris Kicked Out the Cars”

One thing I love about the occasional taxi ride in and around Paris is that it offers an insight into how a slice of the population views the city’s ongoing radical transformation. Without fail, the first run-in with a street newly blocked off to non-residents, or the first cyclist…