Book. Neither a programmatic work, nor a e book of revelations or settling of scores. The House of Pillars. How we modified Paris (Stock, 256 pages, 20 euros) is none of that. And that is exactly the entire level of the story that Pierre Lombard provides of his years within the workplace of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), between 2019 and 2025. He takes care to maneuver away from the political and media noise that surrounds City Hall to deal with the concrete actuality. A narrative of the transformation of Parisète, the train of energy and the transformation of a metropolis “mastodon” money “around thirty deputies and their offices, 17 district mayors, around twenty departments and 55,000 civil servants”.
Advisor then deputy director of the agency, Pierre Lombard dealt particularly with questions of roads and improvement of public areas, then with the group of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024: he had a entrance row seat to watch the inner but additionally exterior energy video games, with a State which has authority over a part of the capital. At the identical time “translator and guardian” of the most important orientations of the mayor, it testifies to the difficulties for a “decision does not end up in the circuits of administration and does not get lost there”.
How, from a obscure beginning order – “carry out a very ambitious cycling plan” –, we should deliver a actuality to fruition, decide the streets to be reworked, the timetable, the tactic and negotiate with everybody. “With a deputy who runs his administration well, who is aligned with the political vision of the mayor, who shares information and coordinates with the other deputies, I am of no use. But these conditions are almost never met”summarizes the one who joined the Place publique social gathering and seems on the left union record for the municipal elections in March.
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