Brazil. Urban Planning Challenges
Description
A city shouldn't be a problem, says Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba. "It should be a solution." This program explores innovative planning, engineering, and conservation at work in the Brazilian metropolis as it transcends many of the problems plaguing other South American cities. The film spotlights fully modernized public transportation and recycling systems, a "Citizenship Street" zoning pattern that reduces high-volume traffic, an oil collection program that transforms used cooking grease into biofuel, and other successful initiatives. But the need for a waste-for-food exchange program demonstrates that even Curitiba must still contend with poverty and other social challenges.
Runtime
27 min
Series
Subjects
- Human geography (324)
- Nature (209)
- Cultural geography (235)
- Social change (532)
- Environmental geography (78)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- Environmental protection (361)
- Social ecology (250)
- Urbanization (175)
- Economic geography (159)
- Population policy (78)
- Human ecology (350)
- Rural-urban migration (144)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c2009
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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