Anne Hidalgo Concepts

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words

cars. “Paris Mayor’s War on Cars Moves Up a Gear with Ban in the Heart of the City” was how France 24 described Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s efforts to limit cars on the Rue de Rivoli and otherwise make the city friendlier for cycling in 2017. The New York Post published

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experience firsthand what has become one of the easiest and most convenient ways to get around Paris: on two wheels. Under the leadership of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party who took office in 2014, this city of 2.16 million has created hundreds of kilometers of new bike

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, 2023, wri.org/insights/paris-15-minute-city. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT It’s true that the mayor’s approval ratings: Marie Pouzadoux, “Anne Hidalgo Obtains the Worst Presidential Election Result in the History of the Parti Socialiste,” Le Monde, April 11, 2022, lemonde.fr/en/2022-presidential-election/article

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/2022/04/11/anne-hidalgo-obtains-the-worst-presidential-election-result-in-the-history-of-the-parti-socialiste-ps_5980262_16.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “They are

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philistines”: Clea Caulcutt, “Anne Hidalgo’s Sack of Paris,” Politico Europe, December 15, 2021, politico.eu/article/anne-hidalgo-paris-mayor-urban-revolution. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Hidalgo’s deputy Najdovski: Goodyear, “The French Connection.” GO

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–12, 138, 147, 171, 204 business owners, 28, 29, 34, 35, 180–81, 215 C California, 52–53, 113–14, 195–98, 196 campaigns against Anne Hidalgo, 193 for bike lanes in Boston, 207 car industry, 88–89 for car safety, 96 against jaywalking, 16, 19 to lid highways, 173–74 to

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

by Jeff Goodell · 10 Jul 2023 · 347pp · 108,323 words

too deep of an idea that Paris is Paris and it can’t change.” The cooling of Paris began in 2014, with the election of Anne Hidalgo as the mayor. Hidalgo, sixty-three, is the daughter of Spanish refugees who fled fascism. Her grandfather, a left-wing activist from Andalucía, was sentenced

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Holds up in Court.” Curbed, October 25, 2018. https://archive.curbed.com/2016/9/27/13080078/paris-bans-cars-seine-right-bank-air-pollution-mayor-anne-hidalgo 250 miles of bike lanes: Madeline Schwartz. “Bike Lane to the Élysée” New York Review, March 24, 2022. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/03

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/24/bike-lane-to-the-elysee-une-femme-francaise-hidalgo/ “My job is to transform”: Kim Willsher. “Anne Hidalgo: ‘Being Paris Mayor Is Like Piloting a Catamaran in a Gale.’” The Guardian, March 3, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/03

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/anne-hidalgo-paris-mayor-second-term-interview only 9 percent: Treepedia website. Accessed October 2022. 108.7 degrees: Anthony Cuthbertson. “Europe Heatwave: Paris Records its Hottest Temperature

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‘Extraordinary Garden.’” The Guardian, January 10, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/paris-approves-plan-to-turn-champs-elysees-into-extraordinary-garden-anne-hidalgo Lacaton & Vassal: Tom Ravenscroft. “Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal Win Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021.” Dazeen, March 16, 2021. https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03

The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World

by Rahm Emanuel · 25 Feb 2020 · 212pp · 69,846 words

a personal antipathy for the mayors of some of the largest cities in the world. A few of his favorite targets: Sadiq Khan in London, Anne Hidalgo in Paris, Jim Kenney in Philadelphia, and me. And the list goes on. As it turns out, we haven’t been too keen on him

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would agree on a new course of action. I offered to host the meeting in Chicago. And so, months later, fifty mayors—including, among others, Anne Hidalgo of Paris, Denis Coderre of Montreal, Miguel Ángel Mancera of Mexico City, myself, and close to forty other North American mayors—met in Chicago and

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old and the new, that we can do in our cities.” * * * “In a globalized world, protectionist reflexes can only separate us and spread fear,” says Anne Hidalgo, the decidedly outward-facing mayor of Paris. Under her leadership, the birthplace of the Age of Enlightenment has remained true to its heritage, with innovative

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bank of the river into a vast pedestrian walkway. One of the biggest advocates of this idea was the then–deputy mayor of the city, Anne Hidalgo. Hidalgo and her cohorts faced a pretty big obstacle: The French government opposed the project. Hidalgo and then-mayor Bertrand Delanoë knew that if the

The Passenger: Paris

by AA.VV. · 26 Jun 2021 · 199pp · 62,204 words

become a field of battle. A week passes, and the gilets jaunes are back on the Champs. The Twitter account of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, seems oblivious to the situation, suggesting that people ‘come and admire the fantastic Christmas lights on the Champs-Élysées’. Botched communications, her adviser Matthieu Lamarre

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summer season in the kitchen of the old place on the hill behind Père Lachaise Cemetery. Just before her re-election, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, approved an exceptional measure to sustain the city’s bar-and-restaurant sector at least for the summer. Getting authorisation for outdoor seating in Paris

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gender theorist Judith Butler has written about this classic marketing strategy, which aims to graft a positive image on to brands or political parties. Thus Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, launched a scheme to turn the Marais district into a little gay capital inspired by that of Tel Aviv. The principal

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about her aim to make money here, and MasterCard became sponsors of Paris’s Gay Pride, allowing people to make card payments from the floats. ANNE HIDALGO The campaign for the 2020 municipal election in Paris was an unusual one, with the mayoral race contested by two women with different ideas but

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politics) uncharacteristic mutual respect. Neither comes from the grande bourgeoisie or attended the country’s top universities: Rachida Dati’s father was a builder, and Anne Hidalgo, who was re-elected mayor, is the daughter of an electrician. The Franco-Spanish mayor is now an old hand at the Hôtel de Ville

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that, on Sunday 25 March, two things happened that transformed a small fire in eastern Paris into a national scandal. The first was Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announcing on Twitter that the victim had been a Holocaust survivor. The second was a Facebook post by Meyer Habib, a confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu

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pedestrians to cut journey times while enjoying the carefully tended greenery. This cultural mindset and cityscape are reinforced by the policies of the current mayor, Anne Hidalgo: quite apart from the complex battle over banning traffic along the embankments of the Seine, the gradual extension of the thirty km/h speed limit

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words

more time. Paris is the place to watch in this regard. In January 2020, before the full force of the coming pandemic was known, Mayor Anne Hidalgo proposed a bold new plan that could gain momentum in the post-pandemic world. As part of her reelection campaign, she announced the goal of

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in France’s municipal elections, winning 50.2% of the ballot compared to Dati’s 32%. Agnes Buzyn trailed in with just 16%”: Carlton Reid, “Anne Hidalgo Reelected as Mayor of Paris Vowing to Remove Cars and Boost Bicycling and Walking,” Forbes, June 28, 2020. 139 remain car-free: Feargus O’Sullivan

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

by Henry Grabar · 8 May 2023 · 413pp · 115,274 words

instead, removing all 650 on-street spaces in the central zone. In their place rose playgrounds, cultural spaces, benches, or bike parking. In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo eliminated thousands of curbside parking spaces to create room for bus lanes, bike lanes, and loading zones, and planned to get rid of half the

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

. The highway had been closed in the past for limited periods, but this time it was to be permanently pedestrianized as part of Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo’s strategy to get people out of cars. As in Oslo, there followed a backlash from right-wing and motorist groups to the permanent closure

The Rough Guide to Paris

by Rough Guides · 1 May 2023 · 688pp · 190,793 words

and bistrots for market traders, was largely swept away, and the area developed an unsavoury reputation for petty drug dealing. This ‘urban catastrophe’, as Mayor Anne Hidalgo once described it, has been a source of much shame and regret on the part of the Paris authorities ever since; the attempt to retrieve

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’s walls, Paris cannot remain an island forever. Madame la maire Born to Spanish migrants and brought up on a housing estate outside Lyon, Socialist Anne Hidalgo was elected as Paris’s first female mayor in 2015. Madame la maire – the feminization of the title provoked the ire of the conservative Académie

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

by Daniel Knowles · 27 Mar 2023 · 278pp · 91,332 words

roads to build cycle lanes, and congestion charges are spreading. It is easy to find stories about new urban advancements. The socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has promised to wage war on the car, scrapping street parking to make space for bike lanes. Amsterdam has been pedestrianizing main roads since the

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, and then by the police. It took until 2017 for the road to be closed, not by Mr. Delanoë but by his successor, the socialist Anne Hidalgo. Even then, she almost failed. First she had to persuade the police department, which had the right to reopen the road if it judged that

The Rough Guide to France (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides · 1 Aug 2019 · 1,994pp · 548,894 words

with poverty, unemployment and discontent, has long been one of the greatest challenges facing the city. Meanwhile, the city’s Socialist and first woman mayor, Anne Hidalgo, is continuing and expanding upon the green policies of her popular predecessor, Bertrand Delanoë, creating a more cycle-friendly environment and reclaiming for pedestrians more