When Paris will be bigger....

I learned just last week that plans are on their way as to the concept of making a bigger Paris. As you probably know, Paris has a strict building code since Haussmann's renovation of Paris. No building can be more than 6 floors, and no building can be destroyed or replaced. This is why is Paris is a boring and flat city; all buildings are the same and all the fun is being built outside in the suburbs. As a result Paris has become "museumified" according to Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and has remained the same since the mid 19th century. So now all the good shit is happening in the suburbs like La Defense, Courbevoie, or Boulogne where we can enjoy more modern panoramas and better concrete and up-to-date and liberal entertainment and sight-seeing. Even more, as hi-rise buildings continue to be built in La Defense, something tells me that in 20 years time that place is gonna become the shiznitch! (see here)
And I mean come on, the apartments are tiny and uber-expensive! What a rip off, everyone prefers living outside now!
I was happy to learn that the government is aware that Paris needs to be larger. Amen to that! So negotiations have started, but won't fully take place until the next city-hall elections. So that's soon! And interestingly enough, the Prez is OK with that! Wow.... sounds like hope to me!
They want to add some suburbs to be part of Paris. As a result I think that would mean that Paris will have more arrondissements. Imagine what the 21st district would be?

Now stop right there. This is all I think everybody knows. There is no more information.

Let's just sit back and imagine what it can be like. This is like writing a letter to Santa Claus.
What would I want from a new Paris?

-Arcades, more arcades, more more more arcades!
-Burger King!
-More theaters with more English movies or IMAX.
-Upgraded architecture for modern facilities such as cinemas or night clubs.
-Bigger pavements though I doubt we'll have that. I mean I'm sick of walking in the gutter while my friend next to me is walking on the pavement!!! And it's not cos I'm fat god dammit!
-Arcades
-Malls, PLENTY of malls!!!!
-More fancy open spaces and plazas. Different looking parks. I mean parks are cool, but let's have some modern good looking parks now, with light posts that rise from the floor when night comes, and nicely paved floors, glass/plastic arcs. No fancy spanish/portuguese/swedish whatever artist exhibition such as those stupid cows around the champs elysees! I'm sick of those ugly statues that don't match with the place!
-More malls!
-Big Screen TVs on plazas with advertisements and billboards, so that we can have our own little Times Square/Dundas Square. We can call it.... La Grande Place or something? Add 4-floor tall Burger Kings with a view on the city, and tall movie theaters too, and a mall there too! And fountains and a small skating area for teens!
-New night clubs with several floors, including the top floor being an out-door lounge with plants and trees, with a view of the city, and purple sofas! With colorful toilets too; with lights under the sink and little flat screen TVs above the urinals! (Hey I've seen that!!! It really exists!)

Now I might be dreaming, but something tells me that if they're gonna start even thinking about building new shit inside Paris, the next thing you know is socialists are gonna riot and kids are gonna block their schools.

Fucking French people, never wanting to go forward, always rioting as their first and last solution!

This is once again maybe still a fantasy for me, with a little bit of hope, but something tells me that it's not gonna happen... at least not so soon!

But you know what was interesting... at first Parisians never liked the Eiffel Tower but decided to keep it after 1920.

How about something new for a change? Instead of spending millions on lame-o Paris Plage and the olympic games that, once again, London beat us to!

Show some modernism god dammit!

This is living.

If you check out this page, you'll believe me when I say that Paris is a boring city.