Curitiba - Challenges Of A UrbWorld

Question 1

How many people live in Curitiba?

Answer 1

2 million people

Question 2

What does it face?

Answer 2

Mass unemployment
Transport congestion
Lack of basic services

Question 3

Who redesigned the city?

Answer 3

Jamie Lerner

Question 4

How did Arterial roads help sustain the city?

Answer 4

• 1974 first 2/5 roads built
• this would form structural growth corridors and dictate the future growth
• buses used these roads and the roads are radial going from outside the city
• much cheaper than subways
• network allows everyone to reach the roads and buses easily -> saves people going to the centre

Question 5

How is the pricing of the buses sustainable?

Answer 5

• affordable and only need one ticket to make a journey regardless how many times you changes
• until 1979 tickets reflected the length of the journey
• now they have made the ticket a single price

Question 6

What are the uses and advantages?

Answer 6

• public transport now used 75% of community
• lowered 25% less congestion
• 30% less fuel consumption
• to allow more passengers they made bi-articulated buses fitting 270
• passengers buy in advance and enter through one end of the bs -> allows faster loading so the buss doesn’t have to wait as long
• creates less air pollution
• saves an hour a day for passengers and reduces operation costs by 18%

Question 7

Explain what happened when Lerner wanted to pedestrianise a main congested road?

Answer 7

Lerner met with shopkeepers on Rua 15 and suggested to pedestrianise it
Shopkeepers thought this would reduce profits due to loss of traffic but Lerner agreed to do it on a 30 day trial
Road closed at 6 pm Friday and the following Monday morning the street was so busy shopkeepers petitioned to have the scheme extended to include there street

Question 8

What is the green swap programme?

Answer 8

1. Citizens sort rubbish from organic and inorganic
2. Recovered materials are sold to local industries and styrofoam is shredded to stuff quilts for the poor
3. In favelas where Lorries can’t drive through, people bring the rubbish to collection points
4. There is an exchange taken place, and given are basic food bags of rice beans eggs bananas and carrots bought inexpensively

Question 9

What are the advantages to the green swap programme?

Answer 9

• cost no more than landfill and has advantages of improving public health with less litter, rats and diseases
• program is voluntary but 70% of households take part and 20% of curitibas water is now recovered and recycled

Question 10

How much open air space was there in 1970 and how much now?

Answer 10

0.5 m2 and now 54 m2

Question 11

How many
Parks and woodlands
Trees

Answer 11

26

1.5 million

Question 12

What do woodlands help do?

Answer 12

They slowly infiltrate the rain reducing the amount that reaches the rivers and lowering the peak discharge

Question 13

How is Curitiba economically sustainable?

Answer 13

• in 2000, over 550 factories operating in the industrial city, providing 50,000 direct and 150,000 indirect jobs for a city of 1.8 million
• factories included TNCs such as Bosch
• 6000 other industrial enterprises
• the high level of desertification is beneficial in sustaining the Q of L