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 Stories About: Colombia AND placemaking AND politics
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A Tale of Two Mayors
The improbable story of how Bogota, Colombia, became somewhere you might actually want to live |
Lisa Jones |
04 Apr 2002 |
Main Dish |
| "We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people," said a man in a speech last year. "Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. ... We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and pl ... |
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| Topics: Colombia, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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