The eighth city of Brazil, known worldwide for its urban planning, its innovations in the field of ecological, Its transport network and its quality of life have lost the ability to innovate, which made it its strong point in the years 1970-1980.
We are talking about the end of a myth. Long regarded as the model city of America Latin, for its innovations in urban and ecological transport, Curitiba, located 400 kilometers south of Sao Paulo in the State of Paraná, it has been affected by the same problems as large metropolis Brazilian: population explosion and urban sprawl, usually anarchic.
Between 1970 and 2013, his población it has tripled, from 650.000 to 1.850.000 inhabitants. Curitiba is congested, polluted and socially unbalanced, as Sao Paulo (11.800.000 inhabitants), or Rio de Janeiro (6.500.000 inhabitants), cities that are actually bigger. In the south of the city, in the Neighborhoods Popular clandestine inhabitants appeared in the early 1980s, and have proliferated, creating pockets of poverty that last.
In the 1970s, Mayor Jaime Lerme wanted to make Curitiba a "city on a human scale", a meeting point for people who could move from one place to another without a car. Unfortunately, the interests Private have always been favored to the detriment of interests public, what has caused the current situation.