CURITIBA BRAZIL

Curitiba the capital city of the Paraná state in southeastern Brazil has become a global model for urban development environment preservation and transit. This book releases Curitiba's odyssey through pioneering and developing Bus Rapid Transit 'pari-passu' with urban and metropolitan planning bringing valuable experiences to cities worldwide. Similarly this book contrasts Curitiba's design as a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) with Brasilia's (Brazil's capital city and most iconic Brazilian city) design as a Design Oriented to Traffic (DOT). Beginning with former Mayor and Architect Jaime Lerner's plans in the 1960s Curitiba grew fast to almost 2 million inhabitants with quality of life as main achievement. The 1965 1975 1991 2000 and 2004 Master Plans as well as the controversial 1943 Agache's Plan were revisited to extract lessons and parameters for such development. These plans' lessons greatly influenced the planning directions in some South American cities such as Bogotá Santiago and Lima and also important North American cities like Portland OR; San Francisco and Los Angeles CA. FOREWORDS: JAIME LERNER AND ALLAN JACOBS.