Cities on Speed - Bogota/Behaviour

Soon more than 550 cities world wide will have a population of more than one million. In 2030 80% of the world's population will live in cities. Megacities have traditionally been economic and political power centres but today the fastest growing cities are in developing nations. There is an acute need for new models of city planning to prevent collapses under such huge social, economic and environmental pressure. The NEW challenge is that cities today are made by citizens rather than city planners. If we are to create sustainability, it is an absolute necessity for us to understand the new modernity. Cities on Speed shows how four different megacities are dealing with this new modernity. What are the visions and the solutions and how do they affect the inhabitants?

BEHAVIOUR /BOGOTA
In the early 90s, Bogotá was a city with big problems: Social inequality, pollution, out-of-control population growth and poor public transportation. Kidnappings were the order of the day and the city had the world's highest homicide rates. But unlike other poor megacities, Bogotá found a solution: In 1993 Antana Mockus stepped onto the scene and turned the city into one big social experiment.