La promenade plantée, partant de la Bastille pour finir son parcours Porte de Montempoivre, traverse tout le 12ème arrondissement de Paris. Très originale car principalement aérienne, elle possède également un passage souterrain.
The Original “Highline”
The renovation of infrastructure is not necessarily a new idea. In Paris, the Promenade plantée is a green belt that follows the old Vincennes railway line. While railways and other infrastructural remnants have previously been converted into parks, the Promenade plantée is, from what I can tell, the first elevated viaduct.
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Elle est implantée sur une ancienne voie ferrée qui a cessé d’être utilisée depuis 1969 et qui partait de l’emplacement actuel de l’Opéra Bastille pour aller jusqu’à Saint Maur (commune du Val de Marne à quelques kilomètres de Paris). Elle a depuis été remplacée par le RER A.
La promenade plantée, autrement nommée Coulée Verte, est la création de Philippe Mathieux et de Jacques Vergely. Cette flânerie débute derrière la bâtisse de l’Opéra Bastille. Elle surplombe l’avenue Daumesnil jusqu’au Jardin de Reuilly, cette partie s’appelant autrement le Viaduc des Arts : vous êtes alors « suspendus » à 9,18 mètres du sol sur 1,4 kilomètres.
(High Line) Paris 4K This is a walk on the Parisian "High Line" following the Daumesnil street. Immersive 4K video and binaural sound, as if you were there!
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The Original “High line” 🌳The Promenade Plantée An Elevated Park à la Française
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An illustration by designer and author Vahram Muratyan comparing the Promenade Plantée, or Coulée Verte, and the High Line. The illustration is part of his new book, Paris vs. New York: A Tally of Two Cities. Image courtesy of the author and Penguin Books.
Paris and New York — two cultural centers an ocean apart have a friendly rivalry that’s older than time. Whether you prefer shopping the Champs Elysées or 5th Avenue, spending a rainy day reading Le Temps Retrouvé or The Catcher in the Rye, or snacking on a macaron or a cupcake — you will appreciate designer Vahram Muratyan’s witty side-by-sides of these two iconic cities.
Vahram’s comparisons of Paris and New York, and the Promenade Plantée and the High Line, give us yet another reason to celebrate the Parisian park for its inspiration. Here we take a closer look of at the High Line’s predecessor.
The Promenade Plantée has a similar history as the High Line, but its transformation into public space pre-dates the High Line by more than 15 years.
The original railway, which opened in 1859, was part of a greater rail network meant to connect the Bastille section of the city to the eastern suburbs. When the railway fell out of use in the late 1960s, it lay dormant for 20 years before the Council of Paris approved the transformation of the abandoned railway into a public greenway.
Beginning in the 1980s the area surrounding the abandoned railway was revitalized and the unique idea of turning the crumbling railway into an elevated park gained traction. Landscape architect Jacques Vergely and architect Philippe Mathieux were brought on to design the parkway on the elevated viaduct, which runs 2.9 miles from the then under construction Opéra Bastille, in the Place de la Bastille, to the eastern edge of the city. The inauguration of the elevated park took place in 1993.
Six years later, Joshua David and Robert Hammond met at a community board meeting in Manhattan, where the topic of discussion was the demolition of the High Line. Josh and Robert founded Friends of the High Line to save the historic freight rail line structure, and the Promenade Plantée played a critical role in helping them convince people that the abandoned railway could be transformed into something extraordinary.
Today, the High Line is playing a similar role, inspiring designers, policy makers, and urban planners around the world to transform out-of-use industrial infrastructure into public open space. As Friends of the High Line Co-Founder Joshua David told The New York Times in 2010, “When we were beginning to take the High Line around, being able to point to the Promenade Plantée was huge to us. It’s exciting that the High Line can act in the same way — be something that other projects can point to and say, ‘This may sound unusual, but look, they’ve done it here, and look how successful it is.’”
La Promenade Plantée au-dessus de la Petite CeintureLa Promenade
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Espace public
La Promenade Plantée au-dessus de la Petite Ceinture
Le nouveau Coeur de Broussais :
Un nouvel espace vert sera aménagé à la place du parking actuel. Conçu sur le tracé de la Petite Ceinture, il renoue avec les ambiances naturelles et spontanées de l’ancienne voie ferrée qui faisait le tour de la capitale.
Les idées proposées pour l’aménagement du nouveau cœur de Broussais conciliant ville et nature, voitures et piétons.
La Petite Ceinture, un corridor écologique autour de ParisLa Petite Ceinture, un corridor écologique autour de Paris
La Petite Ceinture est une ligne de chemin de fer aujourd’hui désaffectée qui transportait voyageurs et marchandises sur 32 kilomètres autour de Paris entre 1854 et 1934. De nombreux jardins publics bordés ou traversés par la Petite Ceinture ont été construits depuis le XIXe siècle : Les Buttes-Chaumont, le parc Montsouris, ou plus récemment les parcs d’Eole et des Batignolles. L’ancienne voie ferrée est devenue un maillon essentiel du réseau vert de la capitale.
Corridor écologique, elle accueille plus de 460 espèces végétales et animales. Inscrit dans cette continuité écologique où se mêlent ambiances de parcs et nature exubérante, le nouveau paysage de la Promenade Plantée de Broussais réconcilie ville et nature. Des salons aménagés accueilleront des activités de plein-air choisies par les habitants à travers une concertation en ligne. Des rues-parcs permettent de réaliser le trait d’union entre la Promenade Plantée et la ville, débouchant sur un nouveau parvis, carrefour d’activités culturelles pour les piétons.
Salons Nous avons imaginé 7 salons dans le jardin pour accueillir toutes sortes d’usages de plein-air. La mairie de Paris invite les habitants et usagers à inventer eux-mêmes les activités qui pourraient s’y dérouler : si vous souhaitez proposer des idées ou choisir parmi nos propositions, remplissez le questionnaire.
Rues-parcs Des rues-parcs seront aménagées pour adoucir la frontière entre le jardin et la ville. Elles permettront aux piétons, vélos et voitures de cohabiter dans un espace partagé.
Parvis de la Chaufferie Une nouvelle place publique installée sur un grand parvis deviendra le carrefour piéton du cœur de Broussais. Il accueillera des activités culturelles et fera le lien entre la ville et ses jardins.
Le parcours permet de découvrir de nombreux passages couverts
ainsi que les cours du Fbg St Antoine.
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L'esclave mourant
"L'esclave mourant"
Accoudés au toit du commissariat du 12ème arrondissement qui fait l'angle de la rue de Rambouillet avec l'avenue Daumesnil, les douze exclaves agonisent ainsi depuis 1991, date à laquelle l'architecte espagnol Manuel Nuñez-Yanowski (que l'on connait surtout pour des réalisations publiques à Paris comme en région parisienne) les a accolé à la pierre blanche de l'immeuble. Pastiche étrange que cette réalisation gigantesque qui mêle surréalisme, classicisme et modernisme.
The Time Richard Branson Flew a UFO Over London in an ET Costume It was the early morning of April 1, 1989. Under the cover of darkness, Richard Branson took off in a custom hot air balloon shaped like a UFO. It was 4am and the strobe lights on board were blinking every ten seconds. As the sun began to rise the UFO was making its way over London’s M25 highway. Drivers on their morning commute were stunned. Cars pulled over, police forces mobilized and the army was alerted. TV and radio stations were being flooded with reports of an Unidentified Flying Object…
The original plan was to land in Hyde Park but poor weather conditions blew him off target. Branson was forced to land in Surrey Field instead, as police forces followed in hot pursuit. As the UFO prepared for landing the police surrounded the field and sent a lone officer to approach the strange aircraft. Branson had one more trick up his sleeve… As the UFO door opened dry ice billowed out. It was then that a dwarf—also on board—emerged down the platform in an ET costume.
Unamused, the officers initially threatened arrest, eventually deciding against any formal action.
Pictured above you can see Branson wearing the ET mask the dwarf came out in.
Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group is well-known for his elaborate pranks and publicity stunts, but this one may go down as one of his best. For those curious, the UFO was built in Bristol by Don Cameron of Cameron Balloons Limited. Codenamed “Project Wedgewood”, only a handful of people knew about the stunt which is what made it such a huge success.
Just like a walking pun come to life, a cat set the internet on fire when it decided to strut its stuff on the ‘catwalk.’ Yes, it all occurred at the Esmod International Fashion Show held in Emaar Square Mall in Istanbul, Turkey, much to the delight of all the onlookers.
Attendees at the event filmed the new model clean herself and even swat her paw at the human participants, followed up by a strut worthy of Tyra.
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th 1856, in the territory of modern day Croatia to his two Serbian parents.
Tesla grew up into bright inquisitive, yet eccentric child, who found himself fascinated by the world around him.
Tesla once tried to fly by jumping off the roof of a barn while holding on to an umbrella. He devised a bug powered motor using Junebugs, but had to abort his experiment after a friend decided to eat some of the bugs (Tesla thought this was gross). He once attempted to generate electricity by rubbing two cats together, which resulted in two very mad cats and a scratched up Tesla.
On June 6th, 1884, Tesla arrived in the United States. He was hired by Thomas Edison to do basic electrical engineering, but moved up to re-designing the direct current generators that ran Edison's business.
Edison offered Tesla $50,000, or about $1.1 million in today's currency to make these improvements. After completing this assignment, Tesla asked about the payment for his work. Edison didn't pay out the money. He claimed that he wasn't serious about the payment, that Tesla didn't "understand American humor".
Tesla eventually left Edison's company and partnered with George Westinghouse in 1888 to commercialize his system of alternating current (AC). The problem here is that alternating current competed with direct current, which Thomas Edison built his entire monopoly on. Thus begun the "War of the Currents".
Edison started a massive smear campaign against Tesla and alternating current, trying to scare people into avoiding it's use. He spread false information about deaths from alternating current, lobbied against it, and went so far as to electrocute a circus elephant in public.
Direct current had plenty of faults, it was the cause of death of countless children, and created numerous house fires. Also, the maximum reach of direct current was about two miles, which meant a substation had to be built to continue the current. They would still be building substations today if they were going to get electricity across the US.
Tesla's alternating current could go for hundreds of miles. Lights running on alternating current were brighter, unlike the dull yellow lights running on direct current.
Eventually, Edison had to give into the demands of the people, and go with alternating current.
Tesla's influence goes much further than electricity. He had over 700 patents, and came up with ideas such as:
Robots
Spark Plugs
Electric Arc Lamp
An Xray Device
Blade less turbines
Wireless communication
Electric motors
Laser technology
Neon Lights
Remote Controls
Cellular communication
The radio
An electrical bath to remove germs
RADAR
Wireless communication
And much more
Tesla died from heart failure in a room of the New Yorker Hotel, on January 7th 1943. Despite his fame and influence on the world, he died with significant debts, and all alone.
While Edison is known as the inventor of the century, Tesla is only acknowledged as a paragraph in today's history books, forgotten, and unappreciated.
Why is everyone suddenly tweeting about OK boomer? What is that Baby Yoda meme all up in our feeds about?
And who are Becky and Karen, anyways?
Oh, we’ve got this.
We love keeping up with the latest terms in slang and getting to the bottom of the funniest, strangest, and, yes, thorniest trends in pop culture and social media. We love it so much, in fact, we maintain our own slang dictionary dedicated to them—and it just got a fresh, new look. (It’s looking pretty on point if you ask us.)
So, we thought we would highlight some of our faves from our updates in the last six months or so. Remember, not all of these terms themselves are brand new; we’re just showing ‘em off as new additions. Because slang.
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Words That The Internet Has Changed
Have you ever found yourself scrolling through social media, confused by all of the new slang out there. Well we asked all of you to
tell us about the words you've seen change in meaning on social media.
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First off, what is the slang dictionary?
Now, we consider the definitions in our slang dictionary informal.
That is, the words aren’t defined and entered like terms are in our core dictionary (you know, the one on the homepage), but instead we provide a little more backstory and context about them in a more casual format. If you’re curious, here’s how words get into our good ole traditional dictionary.
But, entries in our slang (and our other nontraditional dictionaries)
are still thoroughly researched, carefully defined, and rigorously
fact-checked—just written with a more casual tone. That way, we’re
not—and you’re not—droppin’ VSCO girl into convos only to be met with that dreaded, eye-rolling response, “Um, that was SO last year.”
What’s more, many of the slang terms we define do go on to get their
very own, official dictionary pages. And of course, many won’t, as they
are but moments, even if much buzzed about on Twitter, in the discourse.
Sorry, Hype House …
And I oop is a viral phrase from a video by drag queen Jasmine Masters. It has since become stereotyped as a catchphrase of VSCO girls. And I oop or I oop can be playfully used to express shock, surprise, or embarrassment.
Baby Yoda is the popular name for a character known as the Child in the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian. He is a member of the same species as the beloved Star Wars character, Yoda. Baby Yoda‘s adorable, lovable appearance helped make the character a widespread meme online.
Becky is a stereotype for a white woman, especially one who is unaware or takes advantage of her social privilege. Becky is also used more generally to mock a young white woman as “basic.”
Online, people post big mood as a way to react to or describe something they find relatable or resonant in some way. Big mood can at once capture a feeling at a specific moment but also comment on a broader sentiment about life in general. (Yeah, existential stuff … )
Big mood is also often posted with a joking, judgmental, cheerful, or ironic tone in reaction and in response to content that is variously seen as quirky, genuine, dramatic, or ridiculous.
Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. Cancel culture is generally discussed as being performed on social media in the form of group shaming.
Chef’s kiss is a gesture and expression meant to show
something is perfect or excellent. The gesture is made by pinching the
fingers and thumb of one hand together (often in an OK sign), kissing
them, and then tossing them dramatically away from the lips. Its tone
can be sincere or ironic.
Hold my beer is an expression joked about being said before an unthinking person does something dangerous or stupid. On the internet, hold my beer is used to make fun of decisions (that are seen to be bad) made by public figures or companies.
Hype House is a collective of young social media content creators and influencers who are especially popular on the video app TikTok. It is also the name of the mansion in Los Angeles the group uses and some members live in.
Karen is a mocking slang term for an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman. Especially as featured in memes, Karen
is generally stereotyped as having a blonde bob haircut, asking to speak to retail and restaurant managers to voice complaints or make
demands, and being a nagging, often divorced mother from Generation X.
A manther is the male version of a cougar, or a middle-aged woman who has the hots for younger men. Manthers are older men who pursue partners significantly younger than them.
OK boomer is a viral internet slang phrase used, often in a humorous or ironic manner, to call out or dismiss out-of-touch or close-minded opinions associated with the baby boomer generation and older people more generally.
A porch pirate
is a thief who steals packages delivered to front doorsteps or porches.
They especially strike during the holiday season, when people order
many gifts online for home delivery.
Rapinoeing is a viral victory pose named after professional soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe. It involves raising and outstretching the arms at an angle in a confident, joyful display.
Self-partnered is an alternative for the word single as a relationship status. It was popularized by Emma Watson in a November 2019 interview with Vogue.
Sksksk is an interjection used to convey surprise,
happiness, and other intense emotions. It’s stereotyped as an overused
expression of VSCO girls on social media.
The goalie dribbles into the outfield for a touchdown! Sportsball
is a mildly critical or humorous term used by people who admit they
don’t know or care about sports. Sports fans sometimes use it, too, as a
playful way to refer to sports they like.
VSCO girl is a term, generally used as an insult, for a
young, usually white woman who posts trendy pictures of herself edited
on the app VSCO.
Stereotypes of the VSCO girl include wearing scrunchies and Birkenstock sandals, drinking out of Hydro Flask reusable water canisters, saying sksksk and (and) I oop, and generally seeking attention online.
A zoomer is an informal term for a member of Generation Z, born in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It can be used with a neutral, mocking, or ironic tone.