Mike's Bogota Blog

Tossing a frisbee amidst the trees.  Entrance to a different reality: El Parque Bosque San Carlos. Uribe Uribe and Gustavo Rest...

A cop watches as vendors gather up their goods on a side street off of Carrera 7. One of Mayor Peñalosa's most prominent and pol...

'Don't turn the other cheek!' A few years ago, the city sponsored a street art festival in an alley off of Calle 13, on ...

The recently-installed 'sonic sculpture' at Calle 19 and Carrera 3. Thanks to massive public outcry by readers of this blog,...

Jaime Garzón, the martyred comedian, now behind barbed wire. A handy dumpsite. A few years ago, when the city began work on the...

Residents in El Parkway, in Teusaquillo, designed by Austrian architect Karl Brunner.  Creating and protecting public spaces has ...