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Two of the world's leading urban visionaries, Executive Director of UN-Habitat Joan Clos and former Mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa, share their international work and ideas for how CNU should expand its global purview.
Peter Calthorpe has spent much of his 30 year practice helping solidify a global trend towards the key principles of New Urbanism: that successful places must be diverse in use and user, human scaled, and environmentally sustainable. Calthorpe's 2010 book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, demonstrates how urbanism is essential to solving the climate change challenge. Calthorpe Associates spearheaded Vision California, the statewide plan for future growth in the state that is currently being implemented by Governor Jerry Brown. His current work throughout China is focused on developing standards and examples of Low Carbon Cities in Beijing, Chongqing, Kunming, Zhuhai and other major Chinese cities.
Dr. Joan Clos is the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), holding this office since October 2010. Under Dr. Clos' leadership, Un-Habitat launched the Medellín Collaboration on Urban Resilience, a new alliance between nine of the world's largest UN and non-UN organizations to build urban resilience and to strengthen the social, economic and environmental fabric of the world's urban spaces. Previously, Dr. Clos was Mayor of Barcelona, serving two terms from 1997 until 2006.
Enrique Peñalosa loves cities. His affinity for Bogotá made him both a successful mayor and an effective voice on international urban affairs, particularly those on the relation between urban design and sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and human well-being. As Mayor of Bogotá, Peñalosa transformed slums, built formidable schools and nurseries, beautiful libraries and hundreds of parks and other pedestrian spaces. He built more than a hundred kilometers of pedestrian-only streets and greenways, such as the Porvenir Promenade, a 24 km pedestrian and bicycle-only street that traverses the poorest neighborhoods. Peñalosa is currently an international consultant on urban issues and President of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).
Noted author, architect, planner and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan Douglas Kelbaugh moderates.
Two of the world's leading urban visionaries, Executive Director of UN-Habitat Joan Clos and former Mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa, share their international work and ideas for how CNU should expand its global purview.
Peter Calthorpe has spent much of his 30 year practice helping solidify a global trend towards the key principles of New Urbanism: that successful places must be diverse in use and user, human scaled, and environmentally sustainable. Calthorpe's 2010 book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, demonstrates how urbanism is essential to solving the climate change challenge. Calthorpe Associates spearheaded Vision California, the statewide plan for future growth in the state that is currently being implemented by Governor Jerry Brown. His current work throughout China is focused on developing standards and examples of Low Carbon Cities in Beijing, Chongqing, Kunming, Zhuhai and other major Chinese cities.
Dr. Joan Clos is the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), holding this office since October 2010. Under Dr. Clos' leadership, Un-Habitat launched the Medellín Collaboration on Urban Resilience, a new alliance between nine of the world's largest UN and non-UN organizations to build urban resilience and to strengthen the social, economic and environmental fabric of the world's urban spaces. Previously, Dr. Clos was Mayor of Barcelona, serving two terms from 1997 until 2006.
Enrique Peñalosa loves cities. His affinity for Bogotá made him both a successful mayor and an effective voice on international urban affairs, particularly those on the relation between urban design and sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and human well-being. As Mayor of Bogotá, Peñalosa transformed slums, built formidable schools and nurseries, beautiful libraries and hundreds of parks and other pedestrian spaces. He built more than a hundred kilometers of pedestrian-only streets and greenways, such as the Porvenir Promenade, a 24 km pedestrian and bicycle-only street that traverses the poorest neighborhoods. Peñalosa is currently an international consultant on urban issues and President of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).
Noted author, architect, planner and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan Douglas Kelbaugh moderates.
