The City That Chose Beauty Over Billboards

"There used to be a massive block of concrete here, there was an advertising column, it wasn't so beautiful," says Gilles Namur, waving his hand along the length of Cours Lafontaine, a street that runs through the historic center of Grenoble.

The City That Chose Beauty Over Billboards

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"There used to be a massive block of concrete here, there was an advertising column, it wasn't so beautiful," says Gilles Namur, waving his hand along the length of Cours Lafontaine, a street that runs through the historic center of Grenoble.

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"There used to be a massive block of concrete here, there was an advertising column, it wasn't so beautiful," says Gilles Namur, waving his hand along the length of Cours Lafontaine, a street that runs through the historic center of Grenoble.

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