CURITIBA

Here is a list of some great places to check out in the city..

 

Outdoor public spaces:

- Praça de bolso do ciclista - Small reclaimed square, designed and built by the public. Article here

- Parque Gomm - An open public Civic Ecology project in the centre of the city. Article here

- Unilivre - Brazil's first Open University for the Environment, pure poetry. Article here

- Praça da Rua Rio Mucuri - Reclaimed park in Bairro Alto.

 

Physical spaces, cultural centres etc..

- Bicicletaria Cultural - Amazing cultural space for fixing bikes, making art..

- Solar Do Barão - cultural art space, web & FB page 

- IPPUC, city planning research institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some articles about past and present views of Curitiba..

 

- Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth, By Brian Barth (The Ecologist, 15th March 2014)

- Curitiba and Hope, By Bill McKibben, (Mother Jones Tue Nov. 8, 2005)

- Urban Acupuncture – Curitiba as an Allegory, By Yael Arbel, C2City (PDF presentation December 2012)

- Where is the world's greenest city? By Hayley Birch (Guardian, April 2015)

- Jaime Lerner on Sustainability in Curitiba & 'Urban Accupunture', by Paula Alvarado (Treehugger 07)

- CURITIBA, BRAZIL, Three decades of thoughtful city planning, by ? (dismantle.org)

- Cracks in the Curitiba Myth, By Greg Scruggs |Nextcity.org November 1, 2013)

- Au Brésil, Curitiba, l’ex-ville modèle d’Amérique latine, peine à se réinventer, by Thomas Diego Badia (Le Monde, 27 mars 2014, in French)

- Ex-capital ecológica, Curitiba precisa reinventar sua marca, By Raphael Marchiori (Gazeta do Povo May 2014, in Portuguese)