Once known as a ldquo;drug capitalrdquo; and associated with kidnappings; violence; and excess; Bogotaacute;; Colombia; has undergone a transformation that some have termed ldquo;the miracle of Bogotaacute;.rdquo; 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 realmmdash;parks; transportation; and derelict spacesmdash;under the leadership of two ldquo;public space mayors;rdquo; Antanas Mockus and Enrique Pentilde;alosa (the latter reelected in 2015). In Learning from Bogotaacute;; 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 Pentilde;alosa through the lenses of both spatial/urban design and the cityrsquo;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 Bogotaacute; 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 Bogotaacute;rsquo;s metamorphosis; Learning from Bogotaacute; offers significant lessons about the possibility for positive and lasting change in cities around the world.
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