Curitiba, Brazil has shown the first world how to create a simple, efficient, environmentally friendly, people friendly, socially responcible city on a shoe string budget.



I first learnt of Jaime Lerner's design of Curitiba on SBS Australia's Dateline.

He has turned his back on urban planning habits favouring livable human cities with parklands, programs to get people out of poverty and inexpencive public transport.

Treehuggers article:
The bus system takes priority over cars. I would imagine that you wouldn't have to see many buses wiz by in their bus lane to get over the need to take your own car into the daily trafic jam. Having a huge, bi-articulated bus on a road with cars would be disasterous but in their bus lanes this would not be a problem.






Wikipedia Article