God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we… — 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,… — 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,… — 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
