Enrique Peñalosa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Enrique Peñalosa

Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia 1998-2000

Visiting Scholar at New York University

Currently on lecture tour about the Politics of Happiness:

Quotes:

"Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people."

"If you base progress on per capita income, then the developing world will not catch up with rich countries for the next three or four hundred years"

"We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality."

"All this (Bogota's) pedestrian infrastructure shows respect for human dignity. We’re telling people, “You are important"

"Every Sunday we close 120 kilometers of roads to motor vehicles for seven hours. A million and a half people of all ages and incomes come out to ride bicycles, jog, and simply gather with others in community."

Other Details

title of his first book "Capitalism: The Best Option."

his father was the secretary general of Habitat '76 in Vancouver

^{[1] [2]}