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• "You are right Tak Fu, the way governments measure GDP is mainly on the consume. So the more a country consumes, the best for the GDP. But it is time to change this mentality and start thinking on..."

  10 July 2012 on What is needed to achieve sustainable cities?

• "Hi Paulo. I´ve never been to Sao Paulo but as you describe it, and also heard, is a city with no green areas (except one or two big parks?). I can also imagine the traffic in that enormous city. I ..."

  9 July 2012 on What is needed to achieve sustainable cities?

• "You are right Ramiro, there is need for more bicycle infrastructure in our cities. Bogota has around 340 km but unfortunately the last two mayors did not invest too much on preserving and/or..."

  5 July 2012 on What is needed to achieve sustainable cities?

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  29 June 2012

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  29 June 2012 on What is needed to achieve sustainable cities?

• likes a topic: new generation = new way of transport ?!

  12 June 2012

• likes a topic: Gender in urban planning - transport

  7 June 2012

• "Personally, I think that all that you have been talking about separate compartments in the metro, pink rickshaws, buses only for women and others, are all very good ideas since women can feel much..."

  7 June 2012 on Gender in urban planning - transport

• likes a topic: Quality of Public Spaces

  7 June 2012

• "No doubt about the need of Planning as an important tool to organize the city and make the poorest have less time in moving. But for example, these slums in medellin have been there for quite a long..."

  28 May 2012 on Mobility Solutions to reduce Urban Poverty

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  28 May 2012 on Mobility Solutions to reduce Urban Poverty

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  28 May 2012 on Mobility Solutions to reduce Urban Poverty

• "No doubt about the need to develop more research on this issue. As Carlos Pardo said, the Carfree Development guide has examples from Western European cities, which are much more different from..."

  28 May 2012 on Pedestrian zones/streets. A menace to retailers or a benefit for the...

• "Well, I think that in many cases we are going to find shopkeepers that wll be against and in favour of pedestrianizing a street that will affect them. For those who are against and concerned about..."

  23 May 2012 on Pedestrian zones/streets. A menace to retailers or a benefit for the...

• likes a topic: Changing the Menace of Motorbikes (Okada) in urban Centers, or should...

  23 May 2012

• likes a topic: Pollution free environment, how can it be achieved and sustained

  23 May 2012

• likes a topic: Mobility Solutions to reduce Urban Poverty

  23 May 2012

• "Thank you Carlos and Cornie for your reply. I´ll look at the documents"

  23 May 2012 on Pedestrian zones/streets. A menace to retailers or a benefit for the...

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  22 May 2012

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  22 May 2012

• likes a topic: 30 km/h Zones, do they really work?

  17 May 2012

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  17 May 2012 on 30 km/h Zones, do they really work?

• "Hi Clarence you are right. The politicians are people with power and they drive cars, so they plan for more car infrastructure and less for cycling and/or walking. There is a growing need for more..."

  16 May 2012 on Push and/or pull? (a chicken or egg question)

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  16 May 2012 on Push and/or pull? (a chicken or egg question)

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  16 May 2012 on Push and/or pull? (a chicken or egg question)

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  15 May 2012

• "Now that you mention it, is regrettable to see how an event like the FIFA U-20 World cup, held last year in Colombia, was an "exception to the rule". Last year Colombia held this important event, not..."

  15 May 2012 on Push and/or pull? (a chicken or egg question)

• likes a topic: Mobility and spatial equity

  15 May 2012

• "Hi Cornie. Thank you for your comment. I don´t know the situation in Asia and I don´t know exactly when these TDM measures were applied. But one question that comes up is if in Beijing, TDM measures w..."

  15 May 2012 on Push and/or pull? (a chicken or egg question)

• "Thank you Thayna for sharing your experience from the favelas in Rio. Actually it is in deed necessary when doing this kind of investments to socialize the project within the community because at the..."

  10 May 2012 on Mobility and spatial equity

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  10 May 2012 on Mobility and spatial equity

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  10 May 2012 on Mobility and spatial equity

• published a topic: Mobility and spatial equity

  8 May 2012

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  8 May 2012 on Mobility and spatial equity

• "I was just looking at the other dialogues (sustainable cities more precisely) and I realized that there is already a topic on "Mobility solutions to reduce poverty" which will be more or less the..."

  7 May 2012 on What is the equitable city?

• "Thank you James for the lecture. Yes you´re right, I´ll open a new topic on this issue."

  7 May 2012 on What is the equitable city?

• published a topic: Slow and sustainable cities

  7 May 2012

• "As James Duminy wrote: equity can be where social groups are treated differently (or it should be inequity?) according to their historical experiences of exclusion or injustice. There is a typical..."

  7 May 2012 on What is the equitable city?

• "Hi. In my city, Bogotá, Colombia there is a project of implementing a congestion charging in downtown in order to restrict the car use. At the same time there is another project going on in the city ..."

  7 May 2012 on Push and/or pull? (a chicken or egg question)