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26 quotes by Jaime Lerner

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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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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

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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... →

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If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

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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... →

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A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

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There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

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Brazil will change when its cities change.

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

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A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

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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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Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

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Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

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