3. The 19th arrondissement will soon have a new "New Economy" incubator : 1,700 square meters of office space dedicated to startups in a neighborhood which for a long time lived off the cattle industry.

4. In the next five years, Paris will have completed a huge program of renovation of its canal network - Arsenal, Saint-Martin, Saint-Denis and Ourcq. The banks will be developed so that Parisians can walk near the water. Following the canals one will be able to walk from the heart of the city (bassin de l'Arsenal) to its northern suburbs).

5. Soon, the Grands Boulevards, linking the place de la République to the Opéra, will be open to traffic in both directions. One of the goals is to slow down traffic growth in this part of the city.

6. By 2006, Paris will have launched its huge investment program to build a line of cablecars circling the capital. The "tramway" would be built on the "boulevards des Maréchaux", the avenues which bear the names of Napoleon's generals, and be installed in the center of the street.

7. Vegetable gardens will start blooming where old train tracks circling the city used to be. First the 18th arrondissement tracks will be converted, then the 17th. Other gardens should be opened soon.

8. Beaches will be opened on the banks of the Seine in the spring and summer. On the quai de Bercy (12th) and parc André Citroën, the city will build floating pools with showers, a cafe and changing booths.

9. In a reasonably near future, traffic will be banned from both parks : Boulogne and Vincennes. 20 kilometers of rollerblade lanes will be opened in the bois de Vincennes. In the near future, the Bois de Boulogne could be closed to traffic from Neuilly to the 16th and be completely off limit to cars on weekends.

10. By 2005, the place de la Concorde, often clogged by traffic, should again become car free. Cars could no longer drive through it to go from the Madeleine to the National Assembly, on the Left Bank. Traffic will be restricted to streets on both sides of the landmark place.

11. New underground traffic. City Hall is working on a huge project which would add 20 kms of underground streets. But these high speed streets would only be linking the northern, southern, easter and western parts of Paris and would not add to the city's traffic. There would be no exits between these points.

13. By fall 2003, in the ZAC Rive Gauche, a new campus will open its doors. This new "Latin Quarter", in the 13th arrondissement, will have close to 30,000 students.

14. A sea change : in many neighborhoods, the city is narrowing the streets and enlarging sidewalks. It is planning to open new itineraries allowing pedestrians to walk easily and with less pollution through the city.

15. Paris will have a new museum dedicated to indigenous arts, primarily to African arts. Located near the Eiffel tower, on the quai Branly, the museum which will open its doors in 2003 has been designed by Jean Nouvel, the star of French architecture who designed the Cartier Foundation for the Arts.

17. If Paris is selected to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the Eastern part of the city near La Villette would be transformed. An international media center would be built along with a 25,000 seat "superdome" mostly for basketball games, as well as swimming pools and rowing pools.

18. The new darling of French architecture, Edouard François, will build a "flower tower " in the porte d'Asnières. The white concrete building will be covered with huge flower pots where albino bamboo will be planted. When it is finished, the building will look as if it were covered with white fur.

19. A new 10 acre park will be built in the Batignolles neighborhood when the French railways vacate the land. The new park will be the size of the very successful Belleville park.