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01/09/26 [The Economic Times] > In 1991, Curitiba began exchanging recyclables for bus tokens and food. 35 years later, the city recycles 70% of its waste while creating jobs and supporting families : In Curitiba, Brazil, residents can exchange recyclable waste for fresh food. Other cities have found different uses for what people throw away. Belo Horizonte has brought waste pickers into formal ...
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14/08/26 [Amazon S3 on MSN] > Curitiba, Brazil: Eco city shaped by green planning : Dicover the distinctive cityscape of Curitiba, Brazil, where extensive parks, tree-lined avenues, dedicated bus corridors, pedestrian areas, and carefully planned neighbourhoods create a greener urban ...
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30/09/17 [PBS] > Curitiba's Innovative Answers to Universal Urban Problems : Curitiba is Brazil's showpiece of urban planning, known among city architects worldwide as a pioneering achievement in metropolitan renovation and innovation. In the 1960s, a redesign effort was ...
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18/09/17 [PBS] > Curitiba's Many Parks : In 1992, Jamie Lerner designed Curitiba's opera house. The frame of Opera de Arame (arame means "wire") was built with inexpensive Plexiglas and metal tubing. The land surrounding the structure was ...
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06/05/16 [The Guardian] > Story of cities #37: how radical ideas turned Curitiba into Brazil's 'green capital' : As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba into an environmentally friendly ‘laboratory for urban planning’. The secret? ‘We had to work fast to avoid our own ...
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26/05/15 [The Guardian] > How Curitiba's BRT stations sparked a transport revolution – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 43 : When Curitiba’s bus rapid transit stations were revamped in 1991, the futuristic glass-tube stops became a new symbol for the Brazilian city Rua Padre Anchieta, as one of the main thoroughfares in ...
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14/03/14 [The Ecologist] > Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth : Football fans around the globe have their eyes set on Curitiba, Brasil this year, the site of the 2014 World Cup. But as Brian Barth reports, eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brasil's ...
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31/10/13 [Next City] > Cracks in the Curitiba Myth : Curitiba is famous for a first-of-its-kind bus rapid transit system, though critics say it unfairly penalizes lower-income people in the suburbs. Credit: whl.travel This is your first of three free ...
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29/02/12 [Panda] > Curitiba waste as resource : Behind the genius of Curitiba's programmes Garbage that is not garbage and Green exchange is the recognition by city officials of the interconnections of many of Curitiba's severe problems. Poverty, ...
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08/11/05 [Mother Jones] > Curitiba and Hope : Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The first time I went there, I had never heard of Curitiba. I had no idea that its ...