Curitiba, Brazil: A sustainable city — Transcript

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1. 0:00kudichiba is the capital city of
2. 0:02Brazil's Southern State of Parana a city
3. 0:05of nearly 2 million inhabitants widely
4. 0:08recognized for its well-run local
5. 0:10government and high quality of life
6. 0:17it is a city that pays a lot of
7. 0:20attention to the environment and wants
8. 0:22to look at the environment as a strategy
9. 0:24for living we have an urban planning
10. 0:26that has a tradition of over 50 years
11. 0:28moving in the same direction life in
12. 0:31Curitiba today is largely credited to
13. 0:34the pioneering work of urban planner and
14. 0:36politician Jaime Lerner who served three
15. 0:39terms as mayor the first in 1971 and
16. 0:43also governed the state of Parana for
17. 0:45two terms cgtn interviewed him in 2014
18. 0:48in the run-up to the World Cup held in
19. 0:51Brazil with matches held in kurichiba
20. 0:53Lerner passed away last year there are
21. 0:57some issues that makes the difference
22. 1:01which is good quality of life good
23. 1:04Solutions on public transport and
24. 1:07sustainability his daughter now leads
25. 1:10the Jaime learned Institute which
26. 1:12manages the architect's Legacy and
27. 1:14facilitates the sharing of experiences
28. 1:16with other cities across the globe
29. 1:22talks about sustainability began in
30. 1:25criti by the time when the word
31. 1:27sustainability didn't even exist the
32. 1:30actions my father took were a response
33. 1:33to actual issues faced by the city so
34. 1:36since that time sustainability is seen
35. 1:38as a response to actual problems not
36. 1:41just as a theory sound and consistent
37. 1:44public policies have been essential to
38. 1:46make Curitiba an international reference
39. 1:48in sustainability and urban planning but
40. 1:51there are also historic reasons in the
41. 1:54city's development that helped to reach
42. 1:56this position this historian says that
43. 1:59the way kurichiba developed in the 19th
44. 2:01century with the focus on settlers and
45. 2:04away from the slave run plantations
46. 2:06common in other parts of the country may
47. 2:09have played an important part in
48. 2:10creating a stronger sense of belonging
49. 2:13here
50. 2:19the south of Brazil is part of Brazil
51. 2:22and faces the same problems as the rest
52. 2:24of the country but maybe to a lesser
53. 2:27degree this may have to do with the fact
54. 2:29that the settlement here is more based
55. 2:32on the arrival of migrants to whom land
56. 2:34was sold to Foster the establishment of
57. 2:37small Family Farms
58. 2:39still has many issues to deal with when
59. 2:42it comes to sustainability and the
60. 2:44environment but the city's achievements
61. 2:46prove that good planning can go a long
62. 2:48way to make in a good City Paolo Cabral
63. 2:51cgtn kurichiba Brazil