Curitiba (East Brazil)

Question 1

Curitiba (East Brazil)

What is the population?

Answer 1

1.8 million.

Question 2

Curitiba (East Brazil)

What wards has it won?

Answer 2

UNEP awarded the city with the highest environmental prize in 1990

Question 3

Curitiba (East Brazil)

Describe their bus system, What makes it efficient?

Answer 3

A rapid bus system is in operation, cheaper to run than a tube system. Some employers subsidise their employees who use it. 80% of travellers use it.
Bus stops are located outside of tube stations which act as locks. This enables efficiency in transport as no time is wasted getting on and off, preventing car pollution (it provides transport for 2 million people which is 70% of transport). The doors are also wide and open for a shorter time, enabling large amounts of people in quickly but ensuring the tube is not stationary for a long time period
Environmentally friendly fuels are used (such as LPG and hydrogen)

Question 4

Curitiba (East Brazil)

How is development done sustainably?

Answer 4

Development of the suburbs is encouraged through an employment line which stretches 34km around the town (such as mechanics, textiles and tourism employment). Public services are also decentralised to enable development.

Question 5

Curitiba (East Brazil)

How is recycling encouraged?

Answer 5

A cambio verde is organised once a week in which residents exchange cardboard boxes, scrap metal, glass and rags for fruit and vegetables, academic equipment or toys for Christmas purchased from local producers. Around 300 tonnes of waste is recycled.

Question 6

Curitiba (East Brazil)

Discuss how green space is used.

Answer 6

• 55m2 of green space is offered per inhabitant (derelict sites such as abandoned quarries and dumps have been regenerated to parks) with various dedications to nostalgic features for specific ethnic groups including a Ukrainian church. Artificial lakes are built to prevent flooding on green sites (as they act as floodplains).

Question 7

Curitiba (East Brazil)

How has better access throughout the city been created?

Answer 7

5 arterial roads were built in 1982, producing a spider web effect and creating better access to places throughout the city.