Curitiba, Brazil

[zak]

What Jaime Lerner and co. have done with Curitiba, Brazil -- completely overhauled a growing city with escalating problems into one of the "most livable" places around, with the most efficient bus system in the world. They're all about what works very quickly for very little money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Lerner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curitiba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede_Integrada_de_Transporte
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1108-33.htm
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jaime_lerner_sings_of_the_city.html
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=2236
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_/ai_16816236
http://www.urbanhabitat.org/node/344
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/26/communities.regeneration
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/24/se.01.html

[jstorvick]

I just watched a documentary film about Curitiba - quaintly titled "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil." While painfully slow at times, and the narrator's accent and sometimes faltering English get in the way of figuring out what's going on, the film does a pretty good job of laying out the tactics Curitiba has used to become a more sustainable city. Curitiba will undoubtedly be a model for cities in the future. I especially dig what they've done with their roads and mass transit systems.

[Justin Boland]

This was totally new to me and it made my night, thank you.

[soulforfood]

Shit, I am Brazilian and live here and I did not know this. Hmm, guess Curitiba might be on my map next time I get out of town.