How to become a bike-friendly city? Lessons from a Paris revolution

As Paris makes room for bikes and cuts back on cars, the French capital is showing what urban change can look like.

Smog once choked Paris streets. Now, cleaner air, grassroots pressure and a bold city agenda are reshaping how the city breathes and moves. From bottom-up activism to political pushback, Paris’s transformation reveals a success story in the fight to reclaim public space.