Paris used to feel like the most modern city in Europe. Superfast TGV trains, automated public restrooms, ambitious modern architecture. But the money for great public works has run out. The pyramid in the middle of the Louvre is a preposterous 1980s glass living room table. And Charles de Gaulle's main terminal, skewered by unnecessary moving walkways, looks like nothing more than the set of Woody Allen's Sleeper. Indeed, there is nothing as dated as the last century's vision of the future.
Paris used to feel like the most modern city in Europe. Superfast TGV trains, automated public restrooms, ambitious modern architecture. But the money for great public works has run out. The pyramid in the middle of the Louvre is a preposterous 1980s glass living room table. And Charles de Gaulle's main terminal, skewered by unnecessary moving walkways, looks like nothing more than the set of Woody Allen's Sleeper. Indeed, there is nothing as dated as the last century's vision of the future.
