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CASESTUDY / CURITIBA, BRAZIL
- Implementation of a plan for sustainable urban development began in the early 1970s.
- Since the 1970s conversion of unused polluted land into usable public green space has increased the amount of open space per person from two to 150 sq. feet.
- Bus station tubes, which not only provide shelter and house ticket sellers but also
- raise passengers to the level of the bus floors, increase bus system efficiency.
- Buses provide the majority of public transportation, servicing an estimated 1.5
- million people per day.
- Use of long, hinged buses creates transport for up to 300 people in one vehicle.
- The bus system is privately owned, unsubsidized, and profitable.
- Curitiba has 25% lower fuel consumption than the Brazilian national average.
- Average per capita income is US $2,500.
- The downtown pedestrian zone is open 24 hours a day
- Homeless children are employed to care for flower beds in pedestrian zones and to
- keep parks clean.
- A program for distribution of food in trade for garbage provides incentive to keep
- streets in the poorest areas, which are generally inaccessible to trash service, clean.
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