Emergency swimming and alcohol bans: what cities could learn from Paris's heatwave mode | Helen Massy-Beresford

Following a devastating heatwave in 2003 that killed 15,000, France has adopted four alert levels to help people cope with extreme temperaturesHelen Massy-Beresford is a British journalist and editor who lives in ParisOver the weekend, as evening fell on the hilly (and, crucially, shady) Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, one of Pariss most popular green spaces, the joyfully chaotic Fête de la musique - a summer solstice celebration of music in all its forms - got under way, with competing DJs starting ...