Microsoft Word - The Happy City - enRoute Charles Montgomery
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THE HAPPY CITY From Paris to Bogotá, urban spaces are undergoing a radical transformation with one thing in mind: your well-being. By Charles Montgomery Illustrations by Hort 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…
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