Hope for Pedestrians Everywhere!
June 11th, 2008
My brother Karl sent me this interview with Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota about redesigning our cities, and therefore our cultures.
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- Daughter in the Wide World (November 6th, 2008)
- Sneak Preview: Some notes on Mexico (October 30th, 2008)
- When the last role of Charmin fell (October 21st, 2008)
- Holding Goats (August 24th, 2008)
- New dirty internet pictures (August 16th, 2008)
June 12th, 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?
June 16th, 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…
July 7th, 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…
July 7th, 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…)
July 11th, 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…