Once known as a "drug capital" and associated with kidnappings,
violence, and excess, Bogota, Colombia, has undergone a
transformation that some have termed "the miracle of Bogota."
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 realm-parks, transportation, and derelict spaces-under the
leadership of two "public space mayors," Antanas Mockus and Enrique
Penalosa (the latter reelected in 2015). In Learning from Bogota,
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 Penalosa through
the lenses of both spatial/urban design and the city'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 Bogota 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 Bogota's metamorphosis, Learning from Bogota
offers significant lessons about the possibility for positive and
lasting change in cities around the world.
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