Human Capitalism/Curitiba

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Curitiba

Transcript of Human Capitalism/Curitiba

Curitiba

Web Elements

• Transportation/Land Use

• Water/Wastewater/Green Space

• Industry/ Community

• Children/Health

• Garbage/Nutrition

• Education/Day Care/ Jobs

• Stragglers/Arrivals

• Identity/Dignity

Challenges

• Poverty

• Unemployment

• Disease

• Ilitieracy

• Inequity

• Congestion

• Pollution

• Corruption

Goals

• Education

• Health

• Human Welfare

• Public Safety

• Democratic Participation

• Political Integrity

• Environmental Protection

• Community Spirit

HOW DID IT GET THERE?Curitiba

Multipurpose

• Cheap

• Fast

• Simple

• Homegrown

• People-centered initiatives

• Common sense

• Local skills

WHAT HAD TO CHANGE?Curitiba

Emphasize

• Children as resources and creators of the future, not a burden

• Utilizing long term perspectives to leadership

• Strong public/business participation

• Vision (both partisan and public)

WHAT TANGIBLE PROJECTS CHANGED THE DYNAMIC OF THE CITY?

Curitiba

Rua Quinze de novembro

• Commercial construction (kiosks, first pedestrian mall)

• Infrastructure (streetlights)

• Nature Elements (flowers)

HOW WAS IT RECEIVED BY THE PUBLIC?

Curitiba

Public Reaction

Negative

• Picking flowers to take home

• Automobile members threatened to take back to the streets

Positive

• Gardens replenished daily

• Children in the community painted the town

WHO BECAME THE NEW CITY LEADERS?

Curitiba

Leadership

• Jaime Lerner (architect, engineer, urban planner, humanist)

• He created policies that relied on wide participation, debate and political consensus that have been followed by the next 6 mayors of Curitiba

• Encouraging a system that is not top down, but instead entrepreneurial solutions are created by citizens

• “Trend is not destiny”

Transportation

• “guides land use and controls growth patters”

• Influences traffic routes and modes

• Influences traffic origins and destinations

• Adapt to existing streets rather than widening roads as other cities have done

• The “three avenue” modification (1 for express buses and one way roads)

Water/Waste Water/ Green Space

• 2 major and 5 minor rivers

• Creates floodplains from soybean harvesting and settlments

• Created channelization projects

• Lerner tried to “design with nature” and create parks around the pockets of floodwater

Industry and Community

• Industrial City (Industries are encouraged to dispose of waste on their own land, 500 nonpolluting industries were recruited by the city

• Affordable housing (workers walk or ride bikes, city purchased preinstalled low income dwellings, schools, services, cultural facilities, public space)

Children and Health

• Provided prenatal and postnatal care to the doubling population, obligatory free checkups

• Daycare/ childhood and teen centers, easily accessible drugstores and health centers

• “Garbage Isn’t Garbage Initiative” turned 70% of households to sort organics into one plastic bag and paper, metal glass into another bag

• Helped costs and reduce land fill waste • Green Exchange Program where citizens swap

garbage for food (60kg of trash get 60 tickets- a months worth of food)

Education, Day Care, Jobs

• 2 children born a day

• 27% of budget goes towards education

• 200 day care centers (free, open 11hrs, provide 4 day meals)

• Provide work for dorming schoolchildren

• Program for Childhood and Adolescence Integration (for school drops outs that teach environmental emphasis, gardening, earning money, menorship)

Stragglers and Arrivals

• Homeless, needy elderly, disabled citizens

• Creating toys our of recyclables

• Informal economy (street vendors)

Identity and Dignity

• Strengthening civil society

• Availability of public information (better they know their city, better they treat it)