God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy. — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal. — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk. — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking. — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car. — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
![“A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.” quote by Enrique Penalosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6dd/enrique-penalosa-32010_cities_a-premise-of-the-new-city-is-that-we-wan_2357839.jpg)
