Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A girl in a neon purple helmet whizzes by, huffing as she pedals past the graffiti-covered walls of what was once one of the world's most turbulent cities. The traffic lights of Bogota blink ...

My recent post on the efforts of PDOT to create a ciclovia-type event (which they would call “Sunday Parkways”) somehow made its way to Gil Penalosa. Penalosa (I previously wrote about his brother ...

More concretely, the more I learned, the more it seemed Ciclovía was designed to solve all our present urban ills. Public health experts speak of its benefits to mental and physical well-being, a ...

Portland resident Jen Sotolongo and her partner Dave Hoch recently returned from a trip to Bogotá, Colombia where they took part in “Ciclovía” — the event inspired our own Sunday Parkways and that’s ...

Bogotá, Colombia — It’s like falling in love all over again; every Sunday without fail, and holidays too, the inhabitants of the car-choked, noise-filled, stressed-out city of Bogotá, 8,660 feet up in ...