{"id":11492,"date":"2012-03-30T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:57:32","slug":"urban-planet-retrofitting-parisian-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/03\/30\/urban-planet-retrofitting-parisian-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Retrofitting Parisian Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/?attachment_id=27879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"paris\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>French public housing, as in many other locales, has had mixed success. Low-income high rise communities are characterized by high unemployment and more recently, unrest. Like many American cities, the conventional approach to these planning failures was to destroy these buildings and start from scratch. But an innovative request from Paris Habitat, the office for public housing, to renovate one such building has yielded interesting results. La Tour Bois-le-Pr\u00eatre was retrofited by architects Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal &#8211; adding more light and square footage to the dark apartments for less than the cost of demolition. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/28\/arts\/design\/renovated-tour-bois-le-pretre-brightens-paris-skyline.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">New York Times)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/28\/arts\/design\/renovated-tour-bois-le-pretre-brightens-paris-skyline.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. French public housing, as in many other locales, has had mixed success. Low-income high rise communities are characterized by high unemployment<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/03\/30\/urban-planet-retrofitting-parisian-towers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Retrofitting Parisian Towers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5864],"tags":[5115,684,5113,5114,3931,875,1174,464],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-anne-lacaton","tag-facebook","tag-frederic-druot","tag-jean-philippe-vassal","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Retrofitting Parisian Towers  - Spacing Atlantic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/03\/30\/urban-planet-retrofitting-parisian-towers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Retrofitting Parisian Towers  - Spacing Atlantic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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