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Bogotá: Lecciones de un Renacer It is with great pleasure that the Departments of Architecture and City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend "Bogotá: Lecciones de un Renacer." This two-day symposium focuses on the urban and social transformations of Bogotá, Colombia, and showcases the exhibit, “Bogotá, el Renacer de una Ciudad” from the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, which helped garner the Leon d’Oro in recognition of Bogotá’s recent renaissance. The symposium takes place October 3–4, 2008, and is centered around a keynote address by former mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa. Other guest speakers include architect Daniel Bermúdez (who will give a lunchtime lecture on Friday, October 3); Her Excellency Carolina Barco, Colombian ambassador to the United States; planner Camilo Santamaría; former director of the Colombian Studies Program at Georgetown University and urban consultant to the cities of Bogotá and Medellín Gerard Martin; University of Southern California Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture Rachel Berney; and UC Berkeley faculty members. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Institute of Urban and Regional Development; the Program in the Design of Urban Places (Master of Urban Design degree program); the Center for Latin American Studies; the Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup; The University of California Transportation Center; and the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies. Due to parking constraints — October 4 hosts a football game at Memorial Stadium — we encourage all to take public transportation to the symposium. For a map to Wurster Hall, as well as directions for transportation and very limited public parking, see the following:
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Enrique Peñalosa is an accomplished leader who has achieved positive results in the diverse activities in which he has been involved. He is also an innovative and influential urban thinker who proposes imaginative projects and solutions to improve public spaces, quality of life and well being, mobility, sustainability and equity. He has particularly creative approaches for growing cities to profit from the world's advanced cities’ examples of failure and success and challenges them to invent a new and different model, more propitious to happiness, more sustainable, more equitable and more competitive. Peñalosa is called all over the world to present his interpretations and proposals on how to create better human habitats. He has lectured internationally in numerous environmental, governmental, urban design and policy and university forums and has advised governments in Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America and the United States. His vision and proposals have significantly influenced policies in numerous cities throughout the world. He currently is Senior International Advisor to the ITDP (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) of New York and the Hewlett Foundation and a member of the experts’ team of the Urban Age Project of the London School of Economics. He is a consultant on Urban Vision, Strategy and Policy. As Mayor of Bogotá, the 7-million-inhabitants’ capital of Colombia, Peñalosa profoundly transformed the city, turning it from one with neither bearings nor self esteem or hope into an international example for improvements in quality of life, mobility and equity in developing world cities. During his 1998–2001 tenure — the Colombian Constitution does not allow for immediate reelection — Mr. Peñalosa implemented an environmentally and socially sustainable model which prioritizes public transport, public pedestrian spaces and children’s happiness. He created TransMilenio, probably the world’s best bus-based transit system; a network of bicycle paths; slum improvement projects; a land bank to provide low income housing with quality urbanism; greenways and pedestrian promenades through low income neighborhoods; radical improvements to the city center; daily car use restrictions during peak hours and an annual Car Free Day; formidable libraries and parks; dozens of high quality public schools managed through a innovative scheme by the best private schools in the country and marvelous nurseries and community centers. Peñalosa’s ideas and proposals have been featured in many of the world’s most important media and he has also published books as well as articles in periodicals and books. He emphasizes that a humane city is the best instrument for competitiveness in the new century, when attracting highly qualified and creative individuals will be especially crucial for economic development. Peñalosa holds a BA in Economics and History from Duke University, a Master’s Degree in Government from the IIAP in Paris and a DESS in Public Administration from the University of Paris II. He also was Visiting Scholar at New York University for three years and has taught at several Colombian universities.
Carolina Barco was appointed Ambassador of Colombia to the United States in August 2006 by President Alvaro Uribe. As Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs between August 2002 and August 2006, Carolina Barco focused her objectives on three specific areas: to strengthen the Ministry's diplomacy in order to increase efficiency, mainly towards a direct support for the Colombian Community abroad; to develop a strong communication policy in order to improve Colombia's international image and contribute to a real understanding of the country's realities, and to promote trade and international cooperation, particularly for development programs. She has worked in the public sector, being Director of the City Planning Department in Bogotá and adviser to the Ministries of Development, Culture, and Environment, as well as to the National Planning Department and the Office of the Mayor of Bogotá. She has also worked as international cooperation adviser to the United Nations Development Program, as researcher at Universidad de los Andes, and as a member of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's Board of Directors. Former Minister Barco is well known mainly as an authority in the formulation and adoption of public policies. She has a Bachelor's degree in Social and Economic Sciences and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Urban and Regional Planning.
Daniel Bermúdez graduated from Los Andes University in 1973 with a degree in architecture. He has worked as an architect and independent developer since then. Among his best projects in Bogotá are: the French Embassy; the Ciudad Salitre Urban Project; the Alberto Lleras Camargo Building, as well as buildings H, B and L at Los Andes University; the French Lycée’s gymnasium, auditorium and parking building; the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University’s library, auditorium and graduate school buildings; and the Tintal public library. Bermúdez is currently developing Bogotá's fourth public library (Centro Cultural Biblioteca Pública Julio Mario Santo Domingo), a project of 23.000m² comprised of a library, a theatre and the San Jose de Bavaria Park. He is also designing the buildings for the schools of architecture, art, industrial design and music at Los Andes University. Among the numerous awards Mr. Bermúdez has obtained is the XII Colombian Architecture Biennale design excellence award, for the Alberto Lleras Camargo building at Los Andes University (1992); the XVI Colombian Architecture Biennale design excellence award, for the graduate school building at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (1998); and the award for excellence in concrete design, for the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano building (1998).
Camilo Santamaria was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1963. He studied architecture at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá. He also holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning in Developing Countries from the University College of London. Most of his architecture and urban projects have been developed in Bogotá. In the last 18 years his work has involved housing, urban design, urban planning and transportation. He has also been a professor at Los Andes University. Santamaria's most renowned projects include the urban design of Ciudad Salitre, Parque Central Bavaria, Tercer Milenio Park, as well as the design of 30 housing projects which include 10.000 homes and several macroproyects in the Bogotá Sabana. He has worked with Bogotá's Mayor's Office in various occasions, specifically with Enrique Peñalosa. Santamaria has participated in a number of large scale urban projects in Bogotá. Some of these include the Integrated Massive Transit System of the Bogotá Sabana, Bogotá's first subway line, the Transmilenio public transportation system, the Mobility Plan, the Secondary Street Network and the city's parking master plan. Santamaria was awarded the 2006 Architecture National Prize on Urban Design for his work on the Tercer Milenio Park. He has also received several awards for his housing projects. Alexandra Rojas Alexandra Rojas is a consultant in financial and urban city related issues. She has worked in the Colombian public sector in several institutions such as the National Planning Department, the Ministry of Defense, the Colombian Vice-presidency, and the Ministry of Finance. She was also a consultant at the Inter American Development Bank in Washington D. D. During Enrique Peñalosa’s term as Mayor of Bogotá she was appointed Deputy Secretary of Finances. From that position she was instrumental in the financing of Mayor Peñalosa’s impressive accomplishments in Bogotá. She is an Industrial Engineer from the Colombian University of Los Andes and earned a master’s in economics at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Berney has taught courses in introductory design and drawing, community design and planning, ecological and sustainable design and development, and urban design and planning in an international context at the University of Berkeley. Her research interests include sustainable urban design and development, social and cultural factors in design, and community planning and university-community partnerships. Her dissertation research focused on sustainable urban development (SUD) in Latin America, where she examined SUD processes and projects in Bogotá, Colombia’s public spaces. Ms. Berney has worked in a volunteer capacity with groups that support community and public space development, including Urban Ecology in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Verde Coalition in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in many municipalities and at the Oakland Museum of California. Her research has been presented at diverse conferences including those of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Her illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications, including Randolph T. Hester’s Design for Ecological Democracy (MIT Press, 2006), the Journal of Urban Design, and the City of Seattle’s Making Streets That Work. Gerard Martin Gerard Martin is currently working for the City of Medellín and the Inter American Development Bank on an exposition and catalogue on the transformation of Medellín, as well as on a book on the 20-year security policies in Medellín, and has currently a project office at EAFIT University in Medellín. Mr. Martin is co-curator of the exhibition “Bogotá: the proud revival of a city,” which has been shown at various locations including the Xth International Architecture Bienale in Venice (Italy) and the Colegio the Arquitectos in Barcelona. He is also the principal editor of the exhibition catalogue, published by Planeta (2007). He co-authored the book “Bogotá: Anatomía de una transformación. Políticas de seguridad ciudadana (1995–2003)” and the book “Participación y Fortalecimiento Institucional a nivel local en Colombia,” both published by Javeriana University. From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Martin was first Research Director and later Director of the Colombia Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies, a USAID-sponsored program. In this context, Mr. Martin provided in-country technical assistance to national and sub-national authorities in Colombia on local governance and democracy, realizing over 100 technical missions to that country. Mr. Martin — who is Dutch — earned an M.A. in political sociology at the University of Groningen and completed post-graduate studies at the Center for Latin American Studies in Amsterdam and Ph.D. studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), where he is finalizing a Ph.D. in local governance and violence in Apartado. Mr. Martin has consulted for The World Bank, USAID, IDB, OEA, and National Endowment for Democracy, among others, and published articles in books and magazines on the historical, political and institutional dimensions of contemporary Colombia. This is his first visit to the West Coast. Local Panelists: University of California, Berkeley
Peter Bosselmann works nationally and internationally on urban design and planning projects. He established urban simulation laboratories in Milan, New York City and in Tokyo, modeled after the Berkeley laboratory that has been under his direction since 1983. His publications appeared in a wide range of academic and professional journals. His new book, Urban Morphology – Understanding City Design by Island Press will come out in November of 2008. His former book, Representation of Places: Reality and Realism in City Design, UC Press, found much acclaim among scholars in fields as diverse as history, psychology, journalism, geography, film, architecture and planning. Bosselmann has produced numerous educational films about urban design issues in San Francisco and New York City, memorable ones include Times Square, narrated by Jason Robards, and New York’s Upper East Side, narrated by Paul Newman. He lectures frequently to audiences in Europe, Japan, China, Australia and North America on his research in urban form and climate, traffic in neighborhoods and on urban design representation. In 2006–7 he was awarded a one-year residency at the Politecnico Di Milano, in 2000 a six-month residency at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, and in 1992 he held an endowed chair at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. He is the recipient of numerous design awards, including, AIA, ASLA and ACIP awards for his work in San Francisco, an Urban Design Institute Award for his work in Oakland, California, recognition for the Seaton Airport Lands design competition in Ontario, Canada, two Progressive Architecture Awards for urban design research for work in San Francisco and on the Toronto Downtown Plans, an award from the American Planning Association, and an invited exhibition of his work at the Triennale in Milan, Italy. Teresa Caldeira Teresa Caldeira’s research focuses on predicaments of contemporary urban development and patterns of spatial segregation and social discrimination. She has been studying relationships between urban form and political transformation, particularly in the context of democratization and neoliberalization in cities of the global south. Her work is interdisciplinary, combining methodologies, theories, and approaches from the different social sciences, and especially concerned with reshaping ethnographic methods for the study of cities. Teresa Caldeira’s book City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo (University of California Press, 2000), won the Senior Book Prize of the American Ethnological Society in 2001. It analyzes the way in which crime, fear of violence, and disrespect of citizenship rights intertwine with urban transformations to produce a new pattern of urban segregation in a context of democratic consolidation. Focusing on São Paulo and using comparative data on Los Angeles, City of Walls suggests that the new pattern of urban segregation developing in these cities also appears in many metropolises around the world. This pattern is based on the construction of fortified enclaves and exemplifies the emergence of a new model of organizing social differences in urban space. Teresa Caldeira’s two current research projects seek to investigate new formations of urban life and city space as they intersect with new technologies of the public, new forms of governance, and new paradigms of urban planning. The first project, in collaboration with James Holston, examines a shift in the paradigm of urban planning in Brazil by focusing on recent urban policy and legislation and comparing them to the previous model of modernist-developmentalist planning. The second project is entitled “Youth, Gender, and New Technologies of the Public in the Neoliberal City.” It analyzes cultural and artistic movements such as hip-hop as a way of addressing the engagement of youth groups with the city as a central experience of social inequality and the use of its different spatial formations as the imaginary through which inequality and racism are criticized.
Robert Cervero teaches and conducts research in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has been an advisor and consultant on transport projects in many countries, most recently in China, Colombia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Indonesia. His current research is on: travel impacts of suburbanization in China through Berkeley's Volvo Center for Future Urban Transport; influences of built environments on public health in Bogotá; land-use and environmental impacts of freeway removal in San Francisco and Seoul, Korea; traffic generation effects of transit-oriented development; and transit value capture in Hong Kong. Over the past five years, Professor Cervero has been a regular instructor of transportation planning courses for the National Transit Institute and the World Bank Institute. In 2004, he was the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research. He also won the 2003 Article of the Year award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. Professor Cervero serves on the editorial boards of Urban Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Literature, and Journal of Public Transportation; chairs the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research Program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation; and was recently appointed to the National Research Council committee of Development, Vehicle, and Energy. Over the past year, he has given keynote addresses at conferences in Shenzhen, São Paulo, Salvador, Bali, Brisbane, Montreal, and Seoul.
René Davids, F.A.I.A., is a principal of Davids Killory Architecture. Work includes: Sunrise Place housing for extended families and Daybreak Grove housing for homeless mothers and children, both in Escondido, California; Observatory House in San Diego, Red House in Berkeley, California. The firm is currently working on residential and commercial projects in the Bay Area and Southern California. The design work of Davids Killory Architects has been published around the world and honored with numerous awards, among them two Presidential Design Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, three AIA National Honor Awards, a Mención de Honor at the IX Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito, three Progressive Architecture Awards, a Mitsui Residential Design Award, Second Prize in the Design Competition for Opera la Bastille. Davids was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for research on the hillside elevators of Valparaíso, Chile, and is currently working on a book that examines the relationship between technology, topography and urbanism in selected North and South American cities. With Christine Killory he received a Graham Foundation Fellowship for As Built: Theory of Practice, a continuing biannual series of books published by Princeton Architectural Press on technical and material innovation in architecture. The first volume, Details in Contemporary Architecture, was published in 2006; the second volume, Detail in Process, will be published in January 2008. Teaching consists of design studios and seminars in design theory.
Nicholas de Monchaux focuses his design practice and research on the intersection between organizational thinking and the built environment. His interdisciplinary design work and writings on cities, networks, and objects have been the subject of numerous articles, invited lectures, and symposia. He is the author of the forthcoming Spacesuit: 21 essays on Technology, Complexity, and Design (Princeton Architectural Press). de Monchaux received his B.A. in 1995, with distinction in Architecture, from Yale University, and his M.Arch. from Princeton University in 1999. He has worked as a designer in noted practices including Michael Hopkins & Partners in London, and, until 2001, the New York Practice of Diller + Scofidio. From 2001-2006 he was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. where he co-organized the 2003 symposium “Limits of Landscape” for the Landscape Architecture Foundation. His design work and writing have been published in ArtNews, 306090, The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine, and have been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Macdowell Colony. He has recently held several distinguished interdisciplinary positions; in 2002 and 2003 he was a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, in 2003 a co-organizer of a major symposium of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, "Limits of Landscape," and in 2005-2006, he was Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum. Recent work on the ecology and built form of the Venetian lagoon resulted in the publication Samples, Scenarios, Catalysts: Towards an Ecology of Strangers (2005), completed with the 2004 Venice Research Studio of the University of Virginia. He has more recently contributed, with TU Delft’s Spacelab, IUAV, and Stalker Lab / Osservatorio Nomade, to the ongoing project "Venice Atlas," a set of surveys and proposals considering the history, culture and landscape of the greater Venetian archipelago. de Monchaux has received honors from the International Union of Architects, Pamphlet Architecture, and the Van Alen Insitute, who awarded him the 2000 John Dinkeloo Memorial Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California Transportation Research Center and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group and the Master of Urban Design group. She is co-director of the UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative, which involves nearly 100 faculty members from 12 departments. Deakin’s research focuses on transportation and land use policy and the environmental impacts of transportation. She has published over 100 articles, book chapters, and reports on topics ranging from environmental justice to transportation pricing to development exactions and impact fees. She currently is conducting a study benchmarking transit-oriented development and developing TOD guidelines for the Federal Transit Administration. Among her recently completed projects are the development of transit investment policy in for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Board, a system plan for express bus services for the San Francisco Bay Area, and the development of a plan for revitalization of San Pablo Avenue from Oakland through El Cerrito, California. Other recent studies investigate the efficacy and acceptability of transportation pricing strategies and the emissions reduction potential of transportation demand management measures. Deakin served as chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Academy of Sciences’ Advisory Board on Surface Transportation-Environmental Research, which recommended a new transportation-environmental research program that was recently enacted into law. She has been active in a number of government posts including city and county transportation commissions and state advisory boards. Deakin holds degrees in transportation systems analysis and political science from MIT as well as a law degree from Boston College.
David E. Dowall is Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) and a Professor of City and Regional Planning. He is a leading expert on urban economics and infrastructure policy and frequently consults for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has served as a policy advisor to local and central governments and businesses in over 40 countries. While at IURD he has hosted a year-long colloquium on California’s future, called “California at 50 Million,” and he has given testimony to the governor and legislators on the state’s infrastructure needs. Dowall chaired the UC Berkeley Academic Senate from 2001-2002, working on the University’s Strategic Academic Plan. He has been a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where with UC Berkeley graduate student Jan Whittington he co-authored “Making Room for the Future: Rebuilding California’s Infrastructure,” a study on the demands facing California’s infrastructure during the next two decades. Dowall’s books include The Suburban Squeeze, The Land Market Assessment, and The Warsaw Economy in Transition. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Maryland, and an M.A. in regional planning and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado.
Harrison Fraker, Jr., F.A.I.A., was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding Dean. He was granted Fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished career of bridging education and practice. He has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit oriented neighborhoods. He teaches design studio and believes in integrating pragmatic and theoretical analysis to create new knowledge about the most critical environmental design challenges facing society. He is currently pursuing his beliefs through a whole systems design approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient, transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.
Professor Hood's research interests include the critical examination and development of specific urban landscape typologies for the American city. Together they reflect and reinforce specific cultural, environmental, and physical complexities of the city and neighborhood landscape. Through his teaching, writing, and practice, Hood advocates the art of "Improvisation" as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture. He is the author of Everyday Urbanism, Urban Diaries: Improvisation in West Oakland, California (Monacelli Press, Inc., 1999).
Allan Jacobs taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning from 1975 to 2001 and twice served as its Chair. Presently he is a consultant in city planning and urban design with projects in California, Oregon, and Brazil, among others. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Miami University and studied at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He received his master’s degree in city planning in 1954 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he later taught. From 1954 to 1955, he was a Fulbright Scholar in City Planning at University College in London. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, Professor Jacobs worked on planning projects in the City of Pittsburgh and for the Ford Foundation in Calcutta, India, and spent eight years as Director of the San Francisco Department of City Planning. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Publications include The Boulevard Book (with Macdonald and Rofe), Great Streets, and Looking at Cities.
Elizabeth Macdonald is an urban designer. Her current research is on the impacts of engineering street standards on the pedestrian realm, context sensitive street design, North American waterfront promenades and their impacts on physical activity, post occupancy evaluation of urban design plans and projects in Vancouver, the sustainability dimensions of urban design, and methods for urban design knowledge-building. Along with her co-authors on The Boulevard Book, she won the 2004 Book of the Year Silver Award for Architecture from ForeWord Magazine. Professor Macdonald is a registered architect and a partner in the urban design firm Cityworks. Recent professional projects include the design for Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco, the redesign of Pacific Boulevard in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the redesign of International Boulevard in Oakland’s Fruitvale District, and streetscape design for San Francisco’s Market/Octavia Neighborhood Plan. Earlier, she helped design C.V. Road, in Ahmedabad, India, now a landmark activity center in the city. A hands-on teacher of urban design, Professor Macdonald’s courses include a focus on empirical observation skills, graphics, and freehand sketching. In recent years she has helped lead two street design workshops at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ciudad Real, Spain, and in 2003 she chaired a Symposium on Urban Design and Sustainability held at the University of British Columbia. |
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Enrique Peñalosa
Carolina Barco Isakson
Daniel Bermúdez Samper
Camilo Santamaría Gamboa
Rachel Berney
Peter Bosselmann
Robert Cervero
René Davids
Nicholas de Monchaux
Elizabeth Deakin
David Dowall
Harrison Fraker, Jr.
Walter Hood
Allan Jacobs
Elizabeth Macdonald