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

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Berney, Rachel, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xiv, 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
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, Bogota, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed "the miracle of Bogota." 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 Penalosa (the latter reelected in 2015). 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 Penalosa 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 Bogota 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 Bogota's metamorphosis, Learning from Bogota offers significant lessons about the possibility for positive and lasting change in cities around the world.

ISBN:

9781477311042 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1477311041 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781477311066
9781477311059

Subject:

City planning Colombia Bogotá.
City planning Social aspects Colombia Bogotá.
Social change Colombia Bogotá.
City planning.
City planning Social aspects.
Politics and government.
Social change.
Bogotá (Colombia) Politics and government.
Colombia Bogotá.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294198
Call No.: BIB 239584
Status: Available

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