ABSTRACT
Located on the left bank of the River Seine in the southwestern corner of central Paris, Parc André-Citroën is named after the car manufacturer whose factory used to occupy the site. Launched through a design competition in 1985 by rightist Mayor Jacques Chirac (b. 1932 – Mayor 1977–95 and President 1995–2007), it was to be a city-owned park ‘for the twenty-first century’, standing in direct contrast to Parc de la Villette, located in the northeastern corner of central Paris and one of leftist President François Mitterand’s Grands Projets, a state-sponsored cultural park – also ‘for the twenty-first century’.
