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March 05 2010

queitsch
13:00

Cities designed for happiness

Bobulate

Cities designed for happiness:

Enrique Peñalosa, who served as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, believes:

“Economics, urban planning, ecology are only the means. Happiness is the goal,” Peñalosa says, summing up his work. “We have a word in Spanish, ganas, which means a burning desire. I have ganas about public life.”

Because really:

“The least a democratic society should do,” he says, “is to offer...