Human Capitalism/Curitiba
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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
Multipurpose
• Cheap
• Fast
• Simple
• Homegrown
• People-centered initiatives
• Common sense
• Local skills
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)
Rua Quinze de novembro
• Commercial construction (kiosks, first pedestrian mall)
• Infrastructure (streetlights)
• Nature Elements (flowers)
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
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)