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We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

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If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

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After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

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A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

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The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

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A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

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Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

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Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

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Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.

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Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

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Biography

Nationality: Brazilian

Type: Politician

Born: December 17th, 1937

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