CASE STUDY - Curitiba

Question 1

What is the population of Curitiba?

Answer 1

2 million

Question 2

Where is Curitiba?

Answer 2

-Capital of Paraná state, Brazil
-1000km from Rio de Janeiro

Question 3

When was their urban master plan introduced?

Answer 3

1968

Question 4

Who was the mayor that made Curitiba sustainable?

Answer 4

Jamie Lerner (1971 - 2002)

Question 5

WHat approach did JL use?

Answer 5

Integrated approach

Question 6

WHat was the recycling a garbage operation?

Answer 6

Waste is separated into organic and inorganic
Recyclable material goes to a plat where it is sorted by hand - is the same price as going to a landfill (cost-effective)

Question 7

How much of its waste does it recycle?

Answer 7

2/3

Question 8

What is an example of its recycling/

Answer 8

There is a library stocked with books pepople have thrown away

Question 9

WHat effect does the opene space have on people?

Answer 9

Improves physical and mental health of residents, bio diveristy, reduced UHI effect

Question 10

How has it solved its flooding issue?

Answer 10

Floodplains next to river

Question 11

Wat have disused factories been turned into?

Answer 11

Sports parks

Question 12

What have they done about Skyscrapers to encourage open space?

Answer 12

More stories are allowed on skyscrapers if they have more open space below or give money to help fund low-income housing

Question 13

How is the bus system effective?

Answer 13

STraight roads
Triple articulate busses which fit more poeple and less congestion occurs
Tubular bus stops, people pay in advance, cuts bus times by 1/3
Costs the same everywhere you go

Question 14

How much cheaper is the bus system than a subway?

Answer 14

500x

Question 15

How many people does the bus system carry per day?

Answer 15

2 million / day

Question 16

How much of a person’s income is spent on transport in Curitiba?

Answer 16

10% ( loe for Brazil)

Question 17

Which car manufacturer has a large presence in Curitiba?

Answer 17

VOLVO

Question 18

What is the “green exchange”?

Answer 18

Unnecessary waste created by low-income areas and collection can’t get down poorly due to constructed roads, so poor bring recyclable rubbish to trucks and get food or bus tickets in return

Question 19

How much rubbish is brought my the poor in echange for food or bus tickets?

Answer 19

5kg waste = 1kg of food

Question 20

What are the benefits of the green exchange program?

Answer 20

The urban poor areas are kept clean, despite waste trucks not being able to reach them

Question 21

What is the COHAB housing programme?

Answer 21

Housing program, 50,000 homes for urban poor

Question 22

What % of residents are happy?

Answer 22

99%

Question 23

What does the 1968 urban master plan include?

Answer 23

• creating and retaing parks + green space besides the river
• “lighthouse of knowledge”
• COHAB
• BRT (bus rapid transit)

Question 24

What % of travelers use the BRT?

Answer 24

80% of travelers use it - some employers subsidies their employees who use it

Question 25

What ia sthe “lighthouse of Knowledge”?

Answer 25

Free educational and internet centres

Question 26

SUCCESS: How much less does the bus system cost compared to the metro?

Answer 26

200 times cheaper

Question 27

SUCCESS: What % of BRT users previously traveled by car?

Answer 27

28%
80% of COMMUTERS use the BRT (50x higher than the no. who used buses prev)

Question 28

SUCCESS:How much less fuel does Curitiba use?

Answer 28

Curitiba uses 30% less fuel per capita than the average Brazilian city resulting in one of the lowest urban pollution levels of any Brazilian city

Question 29

NEGATIVES: How many million users has the BRT lost/

Answer 29

Between 2008 and 2014, the bus system lost 14 million users

Question 30

NEGATIVES: Has has car ownership of cars changed?

Answer 30

0.63 compared with NA of 0.27 per resident
this is due to increased wealth (Curitiba now has the 2nd highest HDI rank in Brazil)

Question 31

NEGATIVES: How much was spent on lanscaping?

Answer 31

City spends more money on landcspaing than housing so 10-15% of population living in sub-standard housing