Surprising Stories: The Buttes-Chaumont: A Model for a Green City
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont. Phil Beard / Flickr
As we leave our homes after two months of lockdown in Paris, our Surprising Story this week visits the Buttes-Chaumont, one of the city’s first public parks and urban renewal projects. Part of Baron Haussmann’s mid-19th century designs for modernized Paris, we’ll see how one of the most noxious places in Paris became one of its most picturesque.
