Curitiba
Climate Action
Why Idoia Postigo recommends Curitiba
“Curitiba has shown the world how visionary leadership, creativity and people-centred innovation can transform urban challenges into opportunities and inspire cities to imagine better futures.”
Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná in southern Brazil, is one of the most studied experiments in urban planning. From the 1970s, under mayor Jaime Lerner and the city planning institute IPPUC, it organised its growth around structural road axes served by express buses, opening in 1974 a bus rapid transit system whose tube stations and dedicated lanes were later adapted by cities from Bogotá to Istanbul. Curitiba also turned flood plains into public parks rather than concrete channels, pede
- Place
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Recommended by
- Idoia Postigo
- Collections
- Climate Action · Co-Being
