Hot Time, Summer In The City II

YOU CAN'T SWIM at New York's Water Taxi Beach (or at the Lower East Side beach Richard Rogers has proposed). Why don't we get pools like the floating pools in the Seine in Paris? All the Hot Young Planners in Lindsey administration (Jaq Robertson, Bob Stern) proposed them 40 years ago.

The Piscine Deligny was the last one in Paris. It sank 12 years ago (here's a picture of it by Helmut Newton before its plunge). But the Mayor of Paris has proposed a new floating pool. Pictures of the old and the new "after the jump."

A postcard view of the Piscine Deligny under construction.
Much of the Paris we love so much was not yet built.

A view of the proposed pool. The pool will be a
good addition to the city, but the government
building in the background shows that the French
have forgotten many of the principles of
urbanism they used to know so well.

UPDATE: Pictures of the annual "Paris Plage," via StreetsBlog. Story in the New York Times.