1. Curitiba

2. Web Elements
• Transportation/Land Use
• Water/Wastewater/Green Space
• Industry/ Community
• Children/Health
• Garbage/Nutrition
• Education/Day Care/ Jobs
• Stragglers/Arrivals
• Identity/Dignity

3. Challenges
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• Disease
• Ilitieracy
• Inequity
• Congestion
• Pollution
• Corruption

4. Goals
• Education
• Health
• Human Welfare
• Public Safety
• Democratic Participation
• Political Integrity
• Environmental Protection
• Community Spirit

5. HOW DID IT GET THERE?
Curitiba

6. Multipurpose
• Cheap
• Fast
• Simple
• Homegrown
• People-centered initiatives
• Common sense
• Local skills

7. WHAT HAD TO CHANGE?
Curitiba

8. Emphasize
• Children as resources and creators of the
future, not a burden
• Utilizing long term perspectives to leadership
• Strong public/business participation
• Vision (both partisan and public)

9. WHAT TANGIBLE PROJECTS CHANGED
THE DYNAMIC OF THE CITY?
Curitiba

10. Rua Quinze de novembro
• Commercial construction (kiosks, first
pedestrian mall)
• Infrastructure (streetlights)
• Nature Elements (flowers)

11. HOW WAS IT RECEIVED BY THE
PUBLIC?
Curitiba

12. Public Reaction
Negative
• Picking flowers to take
home
• Automobile members
threatened to take back to
the streets
Positive
• Gardens replenished daily
• Children in the community
painted the town

13. WHO BECAME THE NEW CITY
LEADERS?
Curitiba

14. Leadership
• Jaime Lerner (architect, engineer, urban planner,
humanist)
• He created policies that relied on wide
participation, debate and political consensus that
have been followed by the next 6 mayors of
Curitiba
• Encouraging a system that is not top down, but
instead entrepreneurial solutions are created by
citizens
• “Trend is not destiny”

15. Transportation
• “guides land use and controls growth patters”
• Influences traffic routes and modes
• Influences traffic origins and destinations
• Adapt to existing streets rather than widening
roads as other cities have done
• The “three avenue” modification (1 for
express buses and one way roads)

16. Water/Waste Water/ Green Space
• 2 major and 5 minor rivers
• Creates floodplains from soybean harvesting
and settlments
• Created channelization projects
• Lerner tried to “design with nature” and
create parks around the pockets of floodwater

17. Industry and Community
• Industrial City (Industries are encouraged to
dispose of waste on their own land, 500
nonpolluting industries were recruited by the
city
• Affordable housing (workers walk or ride
bikes, city purchased preinstalled low income
dwellings, schools, services, cultural facilities,
public space)

18. Children and Health
• Provided prenatal and postnatal care to the
doubling population, obligatory free checkups
• Daycare/ childhood and teen centers, easily
accessible drugstores and health centers
• “Garbage Isn’t Garbage Initiative” turned 70% of
households to sort organics into one plastic bag
and paper, metal glass into another bag
• Helped costs and reduce land fill waste
• Green Exchange Program where citizens swap
garbage for food (60kg of trash get 60 tickets- a
months worth of food)

19. Education, Day Care, Jobs
• 2 children born a day
• 27% of budget goes towards education
• 200 day care centers (free, open 11hrs,
provide 4 day meals)
• Provide work for dorming schoolchildren
• Program for Childhood and Adolescence
Integration (for school drops outs that teach
environmental emphasis, gardening, earning
money, menorship)

20. Stragglers and Arrivals
• Homeless, needy elderly, disabled citizens
• Creating toys our of recyclables
• Informal economy (street vendors)

21. Identity and Dignity
• Strengthening civil society
• Availability of public information (better they
know their city, better they treat it)