How to design and build a city

By First • Jun 11th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

We’d hope that urban planners in Jamaica seek this guy’s advice, whenever they get the funding that is. Enrique Peñalosa was the Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia credited for revitalising the capital city’s architecture and environment.

But we started by building bicycle paths, and now 5 percent of the population, more than 350,000 people, go to work by bicycle.

Q&A with Penalosa HERE

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Source: New York Times



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