Hope for Pedestrians Everywhere!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
By dalagest

My brother Karl sent me this interview with Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota about redesigning our cities, and therefore our cultures.

Check it out.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 6:50 pm and is filed under General Musings, Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

5 Responses to “Hope for Pedestrians Everywhere!”

  1. Sarah
    June 12, 2008 at 5:37 am

    “What are the best-designed cities in the world? The best-designed cities are in northern Europe, like the Dutch and Danish cities.

    As mayor of Bogotá, you reclaimed the sidewalks for pedestrians by banning sidewalk parking, your most famous achievement. The most famous and the most controversial. But we started by building bicycle paths, and now 5 percent of the population, more than 350,000 people, go to work by bicycle.”

    Won’t it be great to finally feel like you’ll not get mowed down by a car if you’re not in one?

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  2. David
    June 16, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Fun to find this guy. I spent an hour tracking him through the web. He’s a professor, now, I guess…

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  3. david
    July 7, 2008 at 1:09 am

    I haven’t blogged for awhile, either, but…time for the Kylie-Graduation entry?

    Don’t forget the “John Kelly, man or legend.” blog, too…

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  4. Jocelyn
    July 7, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    My brother once sent me a Whitman’s Sampler. I was raised in the wrong family, clearly.

    The point about sidewalks is tremendous. I don’t ever want to live in a place without them (unless, um, it’s the “sidewalk” that a country dirt road is…)

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  5. Sarah
    July 11, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    One month ago today, the famed blogger Dalagest was so inspired by well-designed walking cities that he walked away from his blog never to be heard from again…

    #7346

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