24-hour parks and alcohol bans: what cities could learn from Paris’s ‘heatwave mode’ | Helen Massy-Beresford

Following a devastating heatwave in 2003 that killed 15,000, France has adopted four alert levels to help people cope with extreme temperatures Helen Massy-Beresford is a British journalist and editor who lives in Paris Over the weekend, as evening fell on the hilly (and, crucially, shady) Parc des Buttes-Chaumont , one of Paris’s most popular green spaces, the joyfully chaotic Fête de la musique – a summer solstice celebration of music in all its forms – got under way, with competing DJs starting their sets in nearby cafes. It was stiflingly hot and picnickers were cooling down with water, ju

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