[Google Fast Flip] French Idealism Does a Face Plant
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French Idealism Does a Face Plant
By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAÏA DE LA BAUME PARIS — Just as Le Corbusier’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle-rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change. A vandalized “Velib,” a public rental bicycle, in Bastille Square. Residents here can rent New York Times French Idealism Does a Face Plant…
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