Bogota, Columbia Film Analysis

The town of Bogota, Columbia, which is the town that this documentary is focused on, went through many phases of change and redevelopment. These ideas and changes were very effective and overall influenced the success of this city. I believe that almost off of these actions could work in the urban system of U.S. cities, if they are needed and implemented right. Cultural and political contexts needs to be taken into account though. Overall, the two mayors that this film focused on was Antanas Mockus who taught the citizens how to behave in a city and Enrique Penalosa, who built a democratic city. Bogota went through some intelligent mayors who transformed the city. Penalosa transformed Bogota into a beautiful city with economic growth. He started
He did not give up on this plans, which is a great quality for any politician to have. One of his main goals was to change people’s morality. He hired mimes to show citizens how to behave in cities. I found this ridiculous and crazy that it actually worked. I do not think this plan would work in the U.S. because no one would take it seriously. Our culture does not see mimes as action implementers. An idea that I see as amazing is trying to make people replace physical violence with symbolic violence. Mockus did this with the Carrot Law. It is very effective and an important step in controlling violence. I do think this would work in the U.S. because it would put a limit on the time people can stay out drinking, which could decrease fighting, murders, deaths because of alcohol poisoning and drunk driving. But this would be a very hard law to implement because night life is a huge part of our culture. Mockus did not focus as much on growing the economy as Penalosa did, but he certainly did help. He convinced 65,000 of the richest citizens to give an extra 10 percent of their income, this helped improve the city’s economy and tackle the run down parts of the town’s