Success depends on whether wealthy Paris can close the gap with its poorer outer suburbs, says Lionel Laurent for Bloomberg Opinion.
File photo. An aerial view shows the Eiffel Tower with the Olympic rings and the Olympic Eiffel Tower Stadium venue for beach volleyball. Yet the real challenge will begin once the athletes have packed up and gone home. The world’s greatest city must complete its gold-medal transformation into something greater: A megalopolis that binds the hipsters, financiers and flaneurs of historic, densely populated Paris to the sprawling regional economy where many Olympic events will actually take place.
From income to accessing services, the gap has grown between Paris’s 2 million inhabitants and the 10 million who live in the region. “The centre is gentrifying, while the periphery is getting poorer,” says urbanism expert Laurent Chalard.I’ve seen this firsthand, having lived on both sides of the peripherique ring road that did away with the city walls but not the psychological barriers of living intra or extra muros.
Carless Parisians would also benefit from smarter integration: Paris depends upon workers coming from outside the city for more than half of its labour force , and last year’sA more cohesive Greater Paris needs to rewire the region, as imagined by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy in the wake of 2005 urban rioting and the failure to win the 2012 summer games .
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