Enrique Peñalosa - City of equality
In this filmed interview, Peñalosa elaborates on principles for the good city.
During his three-year term as mayor of Bogotá, Colómbia, Peñalosa implemented profound changes which transformed the capital and changed the attitude of its 7 million inhabitants. He massively improved slums, built formidable schools and nurseries, beautiful libraries and hundreds of parks and other pedestrian spaces. He was a leading innovator in America in creating a bicycle path network, restricting car use and radically improving pedestrian facilities, building more than a hundred kilometres of pedestrian streets and greenways. Inspired by the Curitiba model, he created the TransMilenio bus transit system which has been a role model to many cities.
About Enrique Peñalosa
Former Mayor of Bogotá (1998-2001)
Enrique Penalosa is an influential thinker on urban challenges - particularly those related to the relation between urban design and sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and well being. His vision and proposals have significantly influenced policies in numerous cities throughout the world. He is currently a consultant on Urban Vision and Sustainability Strategy and works with many local, regional and national governments as well as other organizations all over the world. He is Senior International Advisor to the ITDP (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy).
Penalosa has lectured at many universities throughout the world as well as many environmental, urban, and managerial forums. His articles have been published and his work and ideas have been featured in publications from many countries. He holds a BA in Economics and History from Duke University, a Master’s Degree in Government from the IIAP in Paris and a DESS in Public Administration from the University of Paris II. He also was Visiting Scholar at New York University for 3 years and has taught at several Colombian universities.
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I heard of this man, Enrique Penalosa when I was working on my thesis on the relationship between traffic congestion and car dependency in my city, Kuching in theState of Sarawak, East Malaysia. I WISH someone can pass me the goodDr. e-mail. I have been working on sustainable urban transport programme (for 3 years now) but nobody listens as the national government policy on the national car PROTON eats into the life of every Malaysian adult who thinks that the car is the answer to accessibility. I envy Bogota and Curitiba and creative city councils in the USA that seize opportunities to give street back to the people for pedestrianization, bike, street buses, train etc.
Can someone pass me this great man's e-mail or contact. We are in the process of preparing for an Conference on Kuching Healthy City, an international evbent for the Alliance for Healthy City , western Pacific and getting Dr. Penalosa here to speak about community spirit in developing a sustainable uban transport programme/project. Thanks
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Hello,
Im from Bogota :0
u will find a lot of contradictory info about Penalosa.
cars out of the sidewalks war is a true fact.... but midle class owners of shops, and small comerce in general were terrebly suffering from his policies, they will tell you how huge wallmart like monopolies got stronger at their expenses.
in the oher hand the begining of the transformation of Bogota began in the former administration of Dr. Antanas Mockus, who, in its negative and possitive aspects, was more of a revolution than Penalosa.
thanks
david
Response to David Cortes:
I did not find any contradiction in Peñalosa's policies. Peñalosa said clearly: "Public Interest prevails over private interest". Firstly, those middle class shops were responsible of traffic jams in the city and most of them were using public space for their expenses because they used the sidewalks as parking lots for cars. That´s the unfairly thing because if you kept the parking lots, indirectly you are stimulating the use of a car and parallely unstimulating the activity of walking as there are no enough sidewalks to use.
Secondly, Peñalosa was by far, more revolutionary than Mockus. Mockus tried to create a cultural conscience. However Mockus lacked of the construction of green areas, an efficient transportation mean, create spaces where everyone is equal...
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