Title Learning from Bogotá : pedagogical urbanism and the reshaping of public space / Rachel Berney

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 174 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction : transformation of a city -- From dystopia to hope, Bogotá reenvisioned -- Independent mayors -- Bogotá's public space traditions -- The pedagogical city -- Learning from Bogotá -- Epilogue : the changing city Summary 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. Berney examines the contributions of Mockus and Peñalosa through the lenses of both spatial/urban design and the city's history. She shows how, through the careful intertwining of new public space and transportation projects, the reclamation of privatized public space, and the refurbishment of dilapidated open spaces, the mayors enacted an ambitious urban vision for Bogotá without resorting to the failed method of the top-down city master plan. Illuminating the complex interplay between formal politics, urban planning, and improvised social strategies, as well as the negative consequences that accompanied Bogotá's metamorphosis, Learning from Bogotá offers significant lessons about the possibility for positive and lasting change in cities around the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject City planning -- Colombia -- Bogotá City planning -- Social aspects -- Colombia -- Bogotá Social change -- Colombia -- Bogotá POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning City planning City planning -- Social aspects Politics and government Social change SUBJECT Bogotá (Colombia) -- Politics and government Subject Colombia -- Bogotá Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book LC no. 2016024712 ISBN 9781477311059 147731105X 9781477311066 1477311068

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