When Curitiba’s bus rapid transit stations were revamped in 1991, the futuristic glass-tube stops became a new symbol for the Brazilian city Rua Padre Anchieta, as one of the main thoroughfares in ...

Curitiba is Brazil's showpiece of urban planning, known among city architects worldwide as a pioneering achievement in metropolitan renovation and innovation. In the 1960s, a redesign effort was ...

Curitiba is famous for a first-of-its-kind bus rapid transit system, though critics say it unfairly penalizes lower-income people in the suburbs. Credit: whl.travel This is your first of three free ...

In 1992, Jamie Lerner designed Curitiba's opera house. The frame of Opera de Arame (arame means "wire") was built with inexpensive Plexiglas and metal tubing. The land surrounding the structure was ...

“You get creative when you take a zero from your budget,” says Jaime Lerner in the 2010 documentary A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil. “But sustainability starts when you take ...

Football fans around the globe have their eyes set on Curitiba, Brasil this year, the site of the 2014 World Cup. But as Brian Barth reports, eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brasil's ...

As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba into an environmentally friendly ‘laboratory for urban planning’. The secret? ‘We had to work fast to avoid our own ...

Description from the artist: The purpose of this project was to illustrate some of the most relevant historic and touristic sites in Curitiba and show the diversity of the city; starting with ...

Eliz and Tais look over: “Why don’t you sit with us?” It is 30 minutes into Germany’s thrilling game with Ghana, and the only free space in Bar Saccy in Largo da Ordem, Curitiba’s historical colonial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Brazilian city of Curitiba features many green spaces -- but that policy doesn't extend to its growing suburbs The Brazilian ...