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The Happy City1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Itinerary | Home From Paris to Bogotá, urban spaces are undergoing a radical transformation with one thing in mind: your well-being. It is rush hour in central Paris. Late July. Michelle Ueberschlag, a Swiss-born fashion designer, has stripped down to her bikini and settled into her deck chair, smack dab in the middle of the Pompidou expressway. She squints out past the guardrail at the Seine. With its churning grey eddies, the river is certainly no substitute for the Mediterranean. Why spend the afternoon here? “Life is easier,” she says with a chuckle. This is a perfectly reasonable answer, especially right here, near the centre line of a freeway that, at this moment, is not a freeway in a city that has changed its mind about what streets are for.
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