Gardens sprout in Parisians’ battle against asphalt jungle

Gardens sprout in Parisians’ battle against asphalt jungle: "Anne-Marie’s garden is 200m long and just 4m wide. It’s not hers alone: she shares it with almost 500 other Paris residents. It is joint plots like this that help Paris urbanites resist the stress of urban living. This one in the Clignancourt district, in the northern part of Paris, is not far from the city’s freeway ring. Anne Marie, a pensioner, is here almost every day, tending to tomato vines, sunflowers and lavender plants. The “Jardins du Ruisseau,” stretched out like a garden hose, is situated in a cutting next to a disused railway track. It is like a broad basin, resembling a canal without any water. Seated on folding chairs in the garden, the view is the walls of apartment buildings rising up into the sky."

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