Podcast - Enrique Peñalosa Discusses The Importance Of Public Spaces

• Artist: Planetizen
• Title: Planetizen Podcast 2006-11-18 - Enrique Peñalosa Discusses The Importance Of Public Spaces
• Album: Planetizen Podcast
• Year: 2006
• Length: 15:14 minutes (7.04 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)

Enrique Peñalosa (Photo by Christian Peralta)

During his 1998-2001 term as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Enrique Peñalosa spearheaded an internationally-recognized series of public infrastructure improvements that have shown positive results in many aspects of the city's public health and safety. In this podcast, we present excerpts from a recent speech by Peñalosa in which he discusses the importance of public spaces in creating great cities.

Peñalosa's entire speech (57:24) is also available for download.

You can also download a PDF (17 MB) of the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied the speech. (Courtesy ITDP)

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