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Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

Berney, Rachel

Hardcover

General ArchitectureSouth American HistoryUnited States Politics

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ISBN10: 1477311041
ISBN13: 9781477311042
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 17 2017
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

Once known as a drug capital and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed the miracle of Bogotá. Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become an unexpected model of urban development through the redesign and revitalization of the public realm--parks, transportation, and derelict spaces--under the leadership of two public space mayors, Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa (the latter reelected in 2015). In Learning from Bogotá, Rachel Berney analyzes how these mayors worked to reconfigure the troubled city into a pedagogical one whose public spaces and urban policy have helped shape a more tolerant and aware citizenry.

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