Curitiba- case study
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- Created on: 07-02-14 22:30
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- Curitiba- case study
- a city in Brazil with the aims to improve the environment, reduce pollution and waste and improve the quality of life of residents
- it works towards sustainability in different ways:
- 1) Reducing car use
- a good bus system used by more than 1.4million passengers per day
- its an 'express' bus system- there are special pre-boarding stations that reduce boarding times and bus only lanes speeding up journey's
- same cheap fair is for all journey's, benefiting poorer residents
- over 200km of bike paths in the city
- 2) Plenty of open spaces and conserved natural environments
- green space increased from 0.5m squared per person to 52m
- has over 1000 parks and natural areas
- residents have planted 1.5 million trees along the city streets
- builders are given tax breaks if their projects include green spaces
- 3) good recycling schemes
- 70% of curitiba's rubbish is recycled
- residents in poorer areas where the streets are too narrow for a weekly rubbish collection are given food and bus tickets for bringing their recycling into local collection centres
- 1) Reducing car use
- has a population of 1.8 million
- How successful?
- VERY SUCCESSFUL!
- reduction in car use means less pollution- environment won't be damaged so much for people in the future
- open spaces and conserving the natural environment means people in the future will still be able to use this open space
- high level of recycling means fewer resources are used and less waste has to go to landfill.
- 99% of people said they were happy with their town
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