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Rachel Berney - Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space - 9781477311042 - V9781477311042
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Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

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Description for Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space Hardback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; JFFH1; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 585. Weight in Grams: 596.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477311042
SKU
V9781477311042
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About Rachel Berney
Rachel Berney is an assistant professor of urban design in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.

Reviews for Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
[Learning from Bogotá] is clearly written and free of excessive academic posing…a worthy book insofar as it discusses several significant urban space projects in a city which was greatly improved in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Journal of Latin American Studies
Learning from Bogotá helps us understand the political nature and contradicaitons of Bogotá's urban planning process...the ... Read more

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


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