Anne Hidalgo

In CDMX, fostering this critical citizenship could lead to more resilient, innovative, and cohesive neighborhoods.

Paris, under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, offers a comprehensive example.

Her implementation of the fifteen-minute city model has transformed the French capital's urban logic.

Hidalgo has declared that her project is based on proximity, participation, collaboration, and ecology.

When you, as a city planner, go to Paris, what strikes you as innovative and something you'd like to take home?

Well, um, Anne Hidalgo's been the mayor of Paris for some time.

You know, she's a strong socialist.

She has, uh, done a number of things that you would think would have ended her reign, um, but she was reelected on the mandate of many more people supporting what she's doing than are against it, despite some of the very visible protests.

Il y a la barre des, des cinq pour cent, les résultats de la présidentielle, euh, de la dernière fois.

On a eu quand même Anne Hidalgo, donc le PS, Valérie Pécresse, LR, Yannick Jadot, les Écologistes et Fabien Roussel, les communistes, tous sous la barre des, des cinq pour cent.

On imagine que ça les rend forcément, euh, un peu plus frileux.

Oui d'ailleurs, quand tu regardes les montants qu'ils ont dépensés, ils n'ont pas dépensé— ils sont pas allés au plafond.

The official candidate for the Parti Conservateur, which is now called Les Républicains, She got about 4.5%.

The official socialist candidate, who was Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, got 1%.

I mean, they're over.

They're over.

This is

what, This is what I learned in Paris, I think, is where's the vision? Like Ana Hidalgo came out and said, we're going to ride bikes now.

Here it is.

Nobody has an idea.

... um, and some, uh, um, are doing things themselves.

Uh, this mayor, for instance, said, "I want to be able to swim in the Meuse." Before, uh, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of, uh, Paris, who was preparing for the Olympic Games to swim in the Seine, uh, as you might-

Mm

... recall.

AFP reported that Société Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, or CET, the company that runs the monument day-to-day, acknowledged that such demands from a visiting delegation should never have been accepted.

New Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire, elected in March, succeeding Anne Hidalgo, promised an investigation as soon as possible, telling reporters it was urgent to establish the facts.

National Assembly President Yael Brompivé also condemned the episode publicly.

For its part, Babs told the Associated Press that any coordination with tower management around the visit was never intended as a request based on gender and said the organization remained committed to equality and mutual respect.

General Gallet said, "This was the moment of truth, to go or not to go." He later confided in me, saying, "At that moment, I thought of you on 9/11, making critical decisions in the World Trade Center North Tower." In a glance, it was clear what General Gallet had to do.

He quickly met with President Emmanuel Macron, Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Monsignor Patrick Chauvet, and other senior officials.

He explained the risk and said, "We only have 20 minutes for firefighters to put out the flames in the cathedral's towers to save Notre Dame." The decision-making process was collaborative, with religious, local, and national leaders considering the risks and potential outcomes together.

President Macron took the general's arm and said, "All right, go ahead." With a delivered presence of mind, General Gallet ordered the coordinated deployment of firefighters into the north tower to save the cathedral.