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The 2020 StreetSmart Paris maps all top attractions including museums, monuments, hotels, major architecture, shopping and more all at a highly legible scale of 1:12,500, complete with 3-D building illustrations. Clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is film-laminated, waterproof and easily fits into pocket or purse. Contents: Paris Street Map 1:12,500; Paris Overview map: 1:200,000; Paris Metro Map; Dimensions: 4 x 36 (10 cm x 91 cm) open, 4 x 9 (10 cm x 22 cm) closed. StreetSmart Paris is so legible you will understand how the Champs des Élysées connects with Champs de Mars, Bois de Boulogne with Belleville, Catacombs with Cimetiere Père Lachaise, Les Halles with La Defense, Quartier Latin with Luxemburg, Montmartre with Montparnasse, Marais with St Germain des Près and Canal St Martin. StreetSmart Paris Paris is unique in many ways. It was Emperor Napoleon III who in 1853 commissioned Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to reinvent the city with new infrastructure and Grand Boulevards cutting through blighted medieval neighborhoods to create the new City of Light. This map shows the plan with Métro stops by line right on the street map. So you can easily understand the local detail in context and see the entire system in an overview map for God's perspective. Paris is the city of the Flâneur the ambivalent drifter who wanders the citys Grand Boulevards looking for chance encounters of the literary and erotic kind. Park benches are said to be spaced in 500 m intervals to encourage Flâneurie. Walter Benjamin, the culture critic, elevated this gastronomy of the eye into the academy channeling the poetry of Baudelaire. The Situationist movement of the 1950s added t