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How Cities Can Put Equality First Through Sustainable Transportation
"One equality that good cities construct is that rich and poor meet as equals in many places — [especially] in public spaces."
July 1, 2024
Enrique Peñalosa in SF: A Livable Streets Visionary Shares His Wisdom
This weekend, San Francisco was treated to a visit by Enrique Peñalosa, the livable streets visionary who spearheaded a transportation revolution as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia by championing ideas like car-free streets, bus rapid transit, and protected bikeways. Peñalosa, who now professes his vision to city leaders worldwide, spoke at Sunday Streets in the Mission and at a SPUR forum.
October 21, 2014
Enrique Peñalosa Urges SF to Embrace Pedestrians and Public Space
Celebrated Colombian urbanist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa told a standing room audience of more than one hundred people at the San Francisco Public Library last night that San Francisco can be friendly to cars or to people, but not both. Further, he argued that there is no fundamental technical reason why streets have to function only as free-flowing arteries to move cars, but that the state of our cities in America is a political decision that we can overturn and that American's perceptions of what is possible in cities will follow suit.
July 8, 2009
Livable Streets Expert Enrique Peñalosa Comes to San Francisco
San Francisco's livable streets advocates have a chance to participate in a public forum tomorrow with Enrique Peñalosa, who, as mayor of traffic-clogged Bogotá, Colombia, implemented a s⁞weeping set of improvements to transit and the pedestrian realm.
July 6, 2009