http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: cars urban cities - Recent Topics en Sun, 17 May 2026 15:25:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11533#post-131158 Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:54:53 +0000 Rosie 131158@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good article with plenty of detail about how fewer cars = happier cities:-</p> <p> "<br /> Peñalosa insisted that, like most cities, Bogotá had been left deeply wounded by the 20th century's dual urban legacy: first, the city had been gradually reoriented around cars. Second, public spaces and resources had largely been privatised. This reorganisation was both unfair – only one in five families even owned a car – and cruel: urban residents had been denied the opportunity to enjoy the city's simplest daily pleasures: walking on convivial streets, sitting around in public. And playing: children had largely disappeared from Bogotá's streets, not because of the fear of gunfire or abduction, but because the streets had been rendered dangerous by sheer speed. <strong>Peñalosa's first and most defining act as mayor was to declare war: not on crime or drugs or poverty, but on cars.</strong><br /> "</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices</a> </p>