Curitiba is Brazil's showpiece of urban planning, known among city architects worldwide as a pioneering achievement in metropolitan renovation and innovation. In the 1960s, a redesign effort was ...

Curitiba is famous for a first-of-its-kind bus rapid transit system, though critics say it unfairly penalizes lower-income people in the suburbs. Credit: whl.travel This is your first of three free ...

Football fans around the globe have their eyes set on Curitiba, Brasil this year, the site of the 2014 World Cup. But as Brian Barth reports, eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brasil's ...

While visiting Curitiba, I witnessed scenes of daily life that added greater dimension to the international model I read about back home. Seconds after a man tossed an empty can onto a dark street, I ...

Behind the genius of Curitiba's programmes Garbage that is not garbage and Green exchange is the recognition by city officials of the interconnections of many of Curitiba's severe problems. Poverty, ...

As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba into an environmentally friendly ‘laboratory for urban planning’. The secret? ‘We had to work fast to avoid our own ...

Description from the artist: The purpose of this project was to illustrate some of the most relevant historic and touristic sites in Curitiba and show the diversity of the city; starting with ...

There was a time when Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil of 1.7 million inhabitants, was a model town heralding a future of durable development and urbanism. Today, although it features ample green ...

There’s a park in New York City that Jaime Lerner loves. “Paley Park,” he says, on East 53rd Street. “It’s very small, and that’s what makes it great.” The park is indeed tiny — 4,200 square feet ...