Paris about to get a new layout. This is the merger of Paris proposed last week by the national administration in charge of planning. Expending Paris to include all the inner suburbs (but not the outer suburbs), and merging the current 20 arrondissements and more than 120 inner suburban municipalities to create 40 districts, in charge of local policies (streets, parks, etc). The new districts wouldn't get numbers, like the current arrondissements, but names like the London boroughs.