Paris is transforming an industrial neighborhood into the Olympic Village—and then turning it into permanent housing

It may be the first time that the Olympic Village was specifically designed for the host city’s future needs.

When thousands of athletes move into the Olympic Village on the outskirts of Paris next month, they’ll be staying in buildings that were ultimately designed for another use: to become part of a sustainable new neighborhood. It’s the opposite of what has happened in previous Olympics, when cities have tried to figure out what to do with relics of the Games as an afterthought.