Sustainable Transportation Film & Forum: Bogota Civic Change
Screenings, lunch & discussion on transit at UMBC & beyond
On March 27th, the office of Off-Campus Student Services, in collaboration with Transit, the Climate Change Taskforce, the Retriever Sustainability Events Team, SEB, and Breaking Ground will show the foreign documentary "Cities on Speed: Bogota Change." It discusses many civic issues related to the development of Bogota, Columbia as well as sustainability aspects such as public transportation.
The documentary will be screened in The Commons' Sports Zone at the following times:
11:40am-1:00PM
2:40pm-4:00PM
4:40pm-6:00PM
March 29th:
Transit, Transportation for a Greener UMBC (TAG)/ Documentary reaction forum with a panel working to improve transportation alternatives at UMBC, as well as UMBC Transit bus drivers.
Lunch will be served at the reaction forum at the University Center University Center 312 and will be a zero waste (fully composting or recycling) event.
About the film:
CITIES ON SPEED: BOGOTÁ CHANGE (Denmark, 2009, 58 min.)
Fifty percent of the world’s population is now living in urban areas. By 2050, this figure is expected to increase to 80 percent. The result will be an explosion of huge megacities posing serious local and global challenges. This is the story of two charismatic mayors, Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa, who, with unorthodox methods, in less than 10 years turned one of the world’s most dangerous, violent and corrupt capitals into a peaceful model city populated by caring citizens. The film uncovers the ideas, philosophies and strategies that underlie the changes in Bogotá and are now being exported to cities worldwide. Episode 4 of the film series, “Cities on Speed.” Directed by Andreas Møl Dalsgaard. Produced by Anna-Maria Kantarius, Jesper Jack and Henrik Veileborg.