Paris goes in search of its lost looks with ‘manifesto for beauty’

City leaders concede trashed Paris' campaign has a point and commit to beautification

Paris city authorities have published a manifesto for beauty" containing plans to spruce up the City of Lights, where an online campaign highlighting ugliness and filth has piled pressure on mayor Anne Hidalgo.

Deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said that several recent initiatives from the Socialist-Green alliance that runs the capital would be scrapped, including allowing Parisians to plant their own gardens on public space.