tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22350717.post4272097323315861728..comments2012-10-31T12:49:31.695-07:00Comments on Urban Planning Research: Notes on Bogotá vs Curitibarandall cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06189926439915839716noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22350717.post-56609316512559921262007-07-12T08:05:00.000-07:002007-07-12T08:05:00.000-07:00Community Design, Access to Public Transportation,...Community Design, Access to Public Transportation, and Recreational Opportunites:<BR/>Associatons with Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Bogotá, Colombia<BR/>Background: In Bogotá chronic diseases and conditions such as heart attack, stroke, and high blood<BR/>pressure are the leading causes of death. A recent review estimates that 20.1% of the deaths due to<BR/>chronic diseases in the Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14942775871181807866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22350717.post-68109148388400523212007-07-09T01:47:00.000-07:002007-07-09T01:47:00.000-07:00I've downloaded the World Bank report and its good...I've downloaded the World Bank report and its good reading material. Sure, there's a lot wrong when there is no planning and things are decided by dictators or the free market. But there is no certainty that well intentioned public intervention will work.<BR/>And even when they worked well, as in Curitiba, they are not without problems now.Mazlin Ghazalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17070411024815218906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22350717.post-7613199432922197772007-07-05T16:51:00.000-07:002007-07-05T16:51:00.000-07:00An effort to learn on these and other bus systems ...An effort to learn on these and other bus systems in developing cities can be checked at<BR/> http://go.worldbank.org/HBZWUBDN10<BR/>Most bus systems implemented brough important improvements to their cities, but they also share some planning, implementation and operational problems that is useful to look at to avoid repeating them elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22350717.post-81805239432667068242007-06-01T23:22:00.000-07:002007-06-01T23:22:00.000-07:00Are you aware of the riots in Santiago de Chile ov...Are you aware of the riots in Santiago de Chile over their similar Transantiago system?<BR/><BR/>http://www.ourwar.org/articles/tag/transantiago<BR/><BR/>I hope you continue to write about Bogota. It seems like such a useful case for many Latin American cities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com