{"id":317,"date":"2009-01-03T00:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluehaired.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-09-28T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T18:00:46","slug":"bogota-building-a-sustainable-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/2009\/01\/bogota-building-a-sustainable-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogota: Building a Sustainable City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I came across this video the other day, and thought that it would be interesting to publish it here too. It’s a look at Bogota<\/a> (Colombia), my home town, and it’s current developments from a sustainability perspective.<\/p>\n

The video itself is quite interesting and it portrays the work done on the city during the past decade and how it is meant to\u00a0boost Bogota towards a more sustainable future. Having experienced the city and the new infrastructure\u00a0first hand, I can honestly say that the video is a bit idealized, and that not everything is as pretty as it is portrayed, yet this is the first time that I actually see Enrique Pe\u00f1alosa<\/a> (the former mayor of Bogota who started some of the projects and who plays a central role in this documentary) explaining his rationale behind the projects, and I have to agree with him on his convictions and be hopeful that the future development of the projects will bring them to the end for which they where initially designed.<\/p>\n

As a relevant side note, I’d like to explain the concept of “sustainability”<\/em>, which is a word that gets thrown around all too often these days and to be honest, lots of people don’t even know what they are talking about.<\/p>\n

The definition that I’ve found to be the most coherent and useful when trying to think sustainable<\/em>, is the one coined by the UN’s\u00a0Brundtland Commision<\/a> that reads:<\/p>\n

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“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And this definition can be broaden by adding that sustainability is not a market trend but a global measurement to build durable<\/strong><\/em> and self sufficient<\/strong><\/em> systems <\/em>for the future by balancing SOCIAL<\/em>, ECONOMIC<\/em> and ENVIRONMENTAL<\/em> factors.<\/p>\n

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Sustainability seen as a durable and self sufficient balance between social, economical and environmental factors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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