In a detailed study, the Atelier parisien d’urbanisme unveils the list of all the streets that could benefit from new greening projects in the coming years. Trees could be planted in several major streets of Eastern Paris, including Rue Saint-Maur, Rue Oberkampf, and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
There are now around 106,000 trees in the streets of Paris – the capital is home to a total of 500,000 trees, found mainly in parks, woods, cemeteries and gardens. According to the Apur’s report “Orientations for green public spaces in Paris”, up to 20,000 more could be planted in the city’s streets, taking into account the constraints justified by the Parisian density. The objective of the study is to “prioritize and offer plans for streets with a potential for vegetalization”.
The majority of the new vegetation would reinforce streets that are already existing planted with trees. It is currently the case for “38% of the streets of Paris”, amounting to a total length of 650 kilometers. The Apur’s guidelines recommend “regaining the original purpose of ‘promenade’ of the existing double alignments, rebuilding the historic double alignments that have disappeared, and improving the landscaping quality of the planted sidewalks”. In Eastern Paris, Boulevard de Ménilmontant (11th and 20th arrondissements) and Avenue Daumesnil (12th arrondissement) are mentioned among the many streets that could soon become greener.
The Apur also draws up a list of unplanted streets which could finally be offered some greenery. Several segments of the local network are included in this “potential for tree planting”:
– First, there are “streets that are more than 19 meters wide”. According to figures from the Apur, nearly 6,900 more trees could be planted there, for a total length of 69 kilometers.
– Then, there are the “Faubourg streets from 11 to 19 meters wide”, older paths with layouts marked by history. Up to 2,600 trees could be planted here, for a total linear distance of 46 kilometers. The Apur reminds us that “the particular layout of some of these streets offers views towards the greater Parisian landscape, especially when these streets follow a steep relief. A landscape analysis is necessary to reinforce the specific planting project of these streets in order to preserve and enhance these views”.
– Finally, the report details the list of the lanes that could reach the status of “local garden streets” (rues jardins de proximité). Here we find a multitude of smaller roads located around parks, schools and sports fields. According to the Apur, they could accommodate nearly 10,000 new trees.
We have drawn up a list of streets that are currently unplanted but could nevertheless have trees in the 10th, 11th, 12th, 19th and 20th districts. For the sake of clarity, we have indicated streets longer than 19 meters and Faubourg streets that would be concerned over a significant length, as well as noteworthy “garden streets”. The lanes and segments already planted with trees or vegetation are not indicated.
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The Apur study does not take into account the riverbanks, the périphérique, the majority of squares, and the “urban forests”. Its authors specify that “all of these streets were analyzed with regard to local and underground networks in order to select the sections with potential for planting trees in the open ground. This could be on the sidewalk, on parking space or on the roadway, according to each situation”.
« When this potential is located on the roadway and that the added value of vegetation on this lane is demonstrated, a reorganization of the uses of the lane would allow its implementation by suppressing space dedicated to parking and/or reducing of the number of traffic lanes and/or switching to one-way traffic. These additions may be completed with a widening of the adjacent sidewalks, thus increasing the quality of the walkway for pedestrians”.
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PARIS 10
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Large streets: Quai de Valmy (northern segment), Rue Ambroise Paré, Rue de Compiègne, Rue de Dunkerque (some segments), Rue La Fayette (some segments), Rue de Saint-Quentin, Rue du 8 mai 1945.
Faubourg streets: Rue du Château Landon, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis (some segments), Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, Rue du Faubourg du Temple (some segments), Rue de la Grange aux Belles, Rue Juliette Dodu, Rue Philippe de Girard, Rue Saint-Maur.
Garden streets: Cité d’Hauteville, Cité Paradis, Impasse Sainte-Marthe, Passage Delessert, Passage des Récollets, Rue d’Abbeville, Rue d’Alsace, Rue Civiale, Rue Demarquay, Rue Georg Friedrich Haendel, Rue de Marseille, Rue Léon Jouhaux (eastern segment), Rue Martel, Rue Robert Blache, Rue de Sambre-et-Meuse, Rue Yves Toudic (northern segment), Square Alban Satragne (adjacent streets), Square Jean Falck.
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PARIS 11
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Large streets: Rue de la Roquette (eastern segment).
Faubourg streets: Rue des Boulets, Rue de Charonne, Rue du Chemin Vert (some segments), Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Rue du Faubourg du Temple (some segments), Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud (some segments), Rue Léon Frot, Rue de Montreuil, Rue Oberkampf, Rue de la Roquette (western segment), Rue Saint-Maur.
Garden streets: Avenue Jean Aicard, Cité de l’Ameublement, Cité de l’Industrie, Cité Bertrand, Impasse Charles Petit, Passage du Bureau, Passage Dumas, Passage Guénot, Passage Philippe Auguste, Passage Rauch, Passage Saint-Ambroise, Rue Amelot (northern segment), Rue de l’Asile Popincourt, Rue Boulle, Rue Charles Delescluze, Rue Charles Luizet, Ru Clotilde de Vaux, Rue Condillac, Rue Charrière, Rue Duranti, Rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi (some segment), Rue Froment (northern segment), Rue Godefroy Cavaignac, Rue Henri Ranvier, Rue Keller, Rue Merlin, Rue des Nanettes, Rue Neuve des Boulets, Rue de Nice, Rue de la Petite Pierre, Rue Plichon, Rue René Villermé, Rue Saint-Bernard, Rue Servan, Rue Spinoza, Rue Titon, Rue Trousseau, Square Maurice Gardette (adjacent streets), Square Saint-Ambroise (adjacent streets), Square Sainte-Irénée.
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PARIS 12
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Large streets: Avenue Émile Laurent, Boulevard Diderot (western segment), Boulevard Poniatowski (eastern segment), Boulevard Soult (some segments), Rue Abel, Rue Bernard Lecache, Rue Ferdinand de Béagle, Rue Jeanne Jugan, Rue Jules Lemaître, Rue Parrot.
Faubourg streets: Rue de Bercy (western segment), Rue de Charenton (some segments), Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Rue de Picpus (some segments) Rue de Reuilly.
Garden streets: Avenue de Corbera, Impasse des Arts, Passage Brûlon, Rue d’Aligre (southern segment), Rue de Chablis, Rue Charles Baudelaire, Rue Charles Nicolle, Rue du Charolais, Rue de Cotte (southern segment), Rue Christian Dewet, Rue Dagorno, Rue du Docteur Goujon, Rue de Fécamp (northern segment), Rue de la Gare de Reuilly, Rue de Gravelle, Rue Hector Malot (western segment), Rue de la Lancette, Rue Leroy Depré, Rue Marie Benoist, Rue de Montempoivre, Rue Moreau, Rue Mousset-Robert, Rue Nicolaï, Rue du Pensionnat, Rue Pleyel, Rue Raoul, Rue de Rambouillet, Rue de Rottembourg, Rue de Tahiti, Rue Tourneux (soutern segment), Rue de Wattignies, Square Émile Cohl & Square Georges Méliès (adjacent streets), Square Philippe Farine (adjacent streets), Square Saint-Éloi (adjacent streets), Square Trousseau (adjacent streets), Villa Daumesnil, Villa de la Porte Dorée, Villa Saint-Mandé.
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PARIS 19
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Large streets: Boulevard d’Algérie, Boulevard Sérurier, Place Armand Carrel, Place du Général Cochet, Rue d’Aubervilliers (northern segment), Rue Charles Monselet, Rue de Tanger (soutern segment).
Faubourg streets: Rue de Belleville (between Jourdain and Place des Fêtes), Rue de Meaux, Rue Riquet.
Garden streets: Allée Diane de Poitiers, Allée Gabrielle d’Estrées, Hameau du Danube, Impasse Grimaud, Passage de Crimée, Passage Desgrais, Passage de Flandre, Passage Goix, Passage Marcel Landowski, Passage de Melun, Rue Alexandre de Humboldt, Rue Alphonse Aulard, Rue Barbanègre, Rue Baste, Rue Blanche Antoinette, Rue Benjamin Constant, Rue Bouret, Rue de Cambrai, Rue Chana Orloff, Rue des Chaufourniers (southern segment), Rue de Chaumont, Rue du Chemin de Fer, Rue Clavel, Rue Clovis Hugues, Rue du Département (some segments), Rue du Docteur Lamaze, Rue des Dunes, Rue Édouard Pailleron, Rue Erik Satie, Rue de la Fraternité, Rue Frédéric Mourlon, Rue Gaston Pinot, Rue Hector Guimard, Rue d’Hautpoul (central segment), Rue Henri Murger, Rue Legrand, Rue Léon Giraud, Rue Janssen, Rue Jean Nohain, Rue Jean Ménans, Rue Jomard, Rue des Lilas, Rue Lally-Tollendal, Rue de la Marne, Rue du Maroc, Rue Michel Hidalgo (eastern segment), Rue de l’Ourcq (some segments), Rue Paul Laurent, Rue de la Prévoyance (eastern segment), Rue Rampal, Square Marcel Mouloudji (adjacent streets), Square Petit (adjacent streets), Villa Maurice Rollinat, Villa du Parc.
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PARIS 20
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Large streets: Avenue Léon Gaumont, Rue Charles et Robert, Rue des Docteurs Dejerine, Rue Félix Huguenet, Rue Harpignies, Rue Louis Ganne, Rue Lucien et Sasha Guitry, Rue Louis Lumière, Rue Maurice Berteaux, Rue Maryse Hilsz, Rue Paganini, Rue Pierre Quillard, Rue Pierre Soulié, Rue de la Plaine, Rue Victor Dejante, Rue Vidal de la Blache.
Faubourg streets: Rue des Amandiers, Rue de Bagnolet (some segments) Rue de Belleville (between Jourdain and Place des Fêtes), Rue des Couronnes, Rue de Ménilmontant (some segments), Rue des Orteaux (some segments).
Garden streets: Allée du Père Julien Dhuit, Chemin du Parc de Charonne, Cité Adrienne, Cité de Gènes, Cité du Labyrinthe, Cour Lesage, Impasse Basilide Fossart, Passage des Deux Portes, Passage Duris, Passage Josseaume, Passage Maigrot-Delaunay, Passage Monplaisir, Passage de Pékin, Passage Piat, Passage des Pruniers, Rue de la Bidassoa, Rue Charles Renouvier, Rue des Cendriers, Rue Cristino Garcia, Rue du Docteur Paquelin, Rue Élisa Borey, Rue de l’Élysée Ménilmontant, Rue des Envierges (western segment), Rue Étienne Dolet, Rue d’Eupatoria, Rue Ferdinand Gambon, Rue de Fontarabie, Rue de la Ferme de Savies, Rue Gasnier-Guy, Rue des Grands Champs, Rue des Haies (central segment), Rue Hélène Jakubowicz, Rue Henri Chevreau (northern segment), Rue Henri Duvernois, Rue de l’Indre, Rue du Japon, Rue Jean-Baptiste Dumay, Rue Juillet, Rue Jules Dumien, Rue Julien Lacroix (some segments), Rue de Lagny, Rue Lespagnol, Rue de Lesseps, Rue Louis Delgrès, Rue Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Rue des Lyanes, Rue de la Mare, Rue des Maronites, Rue Max Ernst, Rue Olivier Métra, Rue Orfila (soutern segment), Rue des Ormeaux, Rue des Panoyaux (some segments), Rue Pauline Kergomard, Rue Pelleport (northern segment), Rue Philidor, Rue Planchat (northern segment), Rue Piat (soutern segment), Rue Pixérécourt, Rue des Plâtrières, Rue du Pressoir, Rue Ramponeau (eastern segment), Rue du Repos, Rue de la Réunion (northern segment), Rue des Rondeaux, Rue Soleillet, Rue Stanislas Meunier, Rue de Tlemcen, Rue Tolain, Rue du Transvaal (western segment), Rue Victor Letalle, Square Chauré, Square de la Salamandre (adjacent streets), Villa des Pyrénées.
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The Atelier parisien d’urbanisme carried out this study under a contract with the Direction des Espaces Verts et de l’Environnement of the city of Paris. The underground networks taken into consideration are those of the RATP, sewerage, GRT-gas, RTE and SIAAP networks, as well as parking lots and tunnels. The city of Paris specifies that the minimum planting distances from these networks are set “at 2 meters from any structure, 2.5 meters from the heating network and 4 meters from metro entrances and underground parking lots”.
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Looking for green and quiet streets for your next stroll? You may want to check our local guide: Charming passages and secret courtyards of Eastern Paris.
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Illustration: Map from the study “Orientations pour des espaces publics végétalisés à Paris”
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