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	Jaime Lerner
		Born in Curitiba, capital of the State of Parana, in 1937, Jaime Lerner graduated in architecture and urban planning from the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Parana in 1964.
		Jaime Lerner is an Urban and Regional Planning professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Federal University of Parana (Brazil) and was a guest professor at the University of Berkeley (California, USA).
		Jaime Lerner is also winner of the UIA 2002 Sir Robert Matthew Prize for Improvement in the Quality of Human Settlements, which was officially presented to him on July 25th, 2002, during the UIA Congress in Berlin.
	www.arc.govt.nz /arc/auckland-region/growth/guest-speakers/jaime-lerner.cfm (450 words)

	Jaime Lerner Information
		Jaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil.
		In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Paraná, and was reelected in 1998.
		Lerner was born to a Jewish family originally from Poland in Curitiba on December 17, 1937.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Jaime_Lerner (439 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 293 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lerner is trained as an architect and his current position is a prestigious one, but his claim to fame is being the mayor of Curitiba for nearly thirty years.
		Jaime Lerner opened his lecture by declaring: "The city is not a problem but a solution." If anyone else had said that, no matter how involved in the making and planning of cities, it would have sounded incredibly hollow and rhetorical.
		Lerner provided 1.5 million tree seedlings to neighbourhoods for them to plant and care for, saying that "there is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree." He solved the city's flood problems by diverting water from lowlands into lakes in the new parks.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/03/25/d40325150199.htm (1412 words)

	Jaime Lerner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jaime Lerner (born December 17, 1937) was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil.
		At the General Assembly of the International Union of Architects in July 2002, Lerner was elected president for a period of three years.
		Lerner is also a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Federal University of Paraná, and has been a guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaime_Lerner (461 words)

	Jaime Lerner (Architect): “The city is not a problem, rather it contains a solution for everything” · Forum 2004
		For that reason, Lerner said "that the city is not a problem but a solution because in the city are the answers to everything: to work, the house, the transport".
		Lerner made reference to the former president of Portugal, Mario Soares, who said that, "it is necessary to globalize solidarity".
		With respect to costs and economic policies, Lerner said that, "to take care of people and their needs costs nothing in comparison with what it means to the worldwide casino of financial speculation".
	www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f045958.htm (796 words)

	PHS \| World-Renowned Urban Planner Visits Philadelphia
		Jaime Lerner spent one day in Philadelphia at the invitation of the Urban Sustainability Forum, and the city may never be the same.
		Lerner’s delight in calling this kind of three-legged deal-making “win-win-win equations” is infectious; he makes you want to dream up a few of your own.
		Jaime Lerner has received numerous international awards, including the United Nations Environment Award (1990), UNICEF Children and Peace Award (1996), and the World Technology Award from the National Museum of Science and Industry (London 2001).
	www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org /phlgreen/urbansustain.html (1650 words)

	Curitiba
		Jaime!" come shouts from a group of children running toward him, "Can we have your autograph?" Jaime Lerner, 60, strolls down flower-lined pedestrian streets and through a cobblestoned historic district where Brazilians at sidewalk cafes reach out to shake the hand of this stout,gray-haired man. "You've done a great job," they tell him.
		Among them was Jaime Lerner, head of Curitiba's school of architecture and the son of a Polish clothing merchant.
		For his leadership in making Curitiba an exemplary sustainable city, Jaime Lerner was awarded a scroll of honor in 1992 by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements.
	www.cdsea.org /archives/Kcontrib/curitiba.htm (1621 words)

	Jaime Lerner and Curitiba
		In 1971 the thirty-three-year-old architect Jaime Lerner was elected mayor of Curitiba, a city of almost two and a half million people in southern Brazil.
		In 1972 Jaime Lerner began his reform of the city, making it into a model which is still considered innovative and interesting today.
		Lerner¿s second project was revolutionising transportation with streets reserved for buses and covered ramps taking the sidewalk up to the same level as the buses so that even disabled passengers could take the bus.
	www.floornature.com /articoli/articolo.php/id310/sez1/en (369 words)

	Curitiba and its visionary mayor -- ECOSUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lerner got each industry, shop and institution to 'adopt' a few children, providing them with a daily meal and a small wage in exchange for simple maintenance gardening or office chores.
		Another Lerner innovation was to organise the street vendors into a mobile, open-air fair that circulates through the city's neighbourhoods.
		Jaime Lerner says, 'There is no endeavour more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.
	www.voy.com /61461/696.html (1641 words)

	BRT developer is big on small-scale solutions - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Jaime Lerner, the man known as the father of bus rapid-transit programs, was in Honolulu last week, but surprisingly it wasn't just buses he wanted to talk about.
		Residents of Lerner's hometown, Curitiba, think they live in one of the best cities in the world; even though most Americans have never heard of it, a lot of outsiders tend to agree.
		Jaime Lerner of Brazil is an international expert in urban planning.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Feb/24/ln/ln37a.html (558 words)

	Hawaii Island Journal - Last Issue Stories
		Lerner was on the Big Island as part of a tour of Hawai'i and elsewhere in his capacity as the president of the International Union of Architects.
		Lerner and his team "were not impressed by the urban fashion of borrowing money for big highways, massive buildings, and shopping malls," wrote the late environmentalist Donella Meadows.
		Applying Lerner's outlook to Hilo, she observed, "The proposed planning method seems simple, but putting it into practice may be challenging due to the current way projects are implemented.
	www.hawaiiislandjournal.com /2004/11a04b.html (1577 words)

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		Jaime Lerner, governor of the state of Parana, Brazil, and former mayor of the city of Curitiba, who has attracted worldwide attention for making that city an environmental model, will receive the 32nd annual Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in Architecture and will be involved in several public activities in April.
		Jaime Lerner, a native of Curitiba, trained in France as an architect and urban planner.
		Lerner's vision is easy to grasp, according to International Wildlife magazine: "Use your car less and separate your garbage." He has specialized in solutions that solve more than one problem.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/textonlyarchive/February_1997/tjaward.txt (1098 words)

	Conference With Architect Jaime Lerner March 8. 2006 \| Where In Costa Rica.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jaime Lerner was deeply involved in the redesign of his hometown Curitibas.
		Lerner closed one of the principal roads and integrated a new road design.
		Jaime Lerner is president of the UIA (International Union of Architects) and was involved in the city design of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Shangai, Caracas, Havana and Seoul.
	www.whereincostarica.com /?q=node/153 (130 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD Fellows . Brazil - Curitiba's Urban Experiment . Architects: Jamie Lerner \| PBS
		Lerner's track record in Curitiba helped him gain the trust and confidence he needed to reach state office, and he served as governor from 1994 to 2002.
		I met with Lerner in the central Curitiba house he built for his family and which has been his home for 40 years.
		Lerner built the house to conform to the land rather than raising it above the lot's hilly landscape.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/fellows/brazil1203/lerner.html (693 words)

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		Lerner has been involved in everything from agrarian land reform to finding ways to feed poor people in cities.
		Lerner said Curitiba has the highest rate of garbage separation in the world: 70 percent.
		Lerner was in Seattle 14 years ago, and said it was "sad," but it's better now.
	www.wcit.org /topics/csr/BRAZIL_JaimeLerner_DJC_4-12.html (790 words)

	Donella Meadows - The Best City In The World?
		Lerner prefers rehabilitating built-up areas to spreading the city outward.
		Lerner got each industry, shop, and institution to "adopt" a few children, providing them with a meal a day and a small wage in exchange for doing simple maintenance, gardening, or office chores.
		Lerner says, "The dream of a better city is always in the heads of its residents.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC39/Meadows.htm (978 words)

	Jaime Lerner — Illahee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba and governor of Paraná, contends that any city can be transformed in two years, given political will, strategy and solidarity.
		Far from being places of despair and instability, Lerner believes that cities are the last refuge of a common global vision, where mobility, education, health care, quality housing and community vitality are all achievable.
		Fani Lerner, Jaime’s wife, conceived this program after years as a schoolteacher and psychologist, and then spread it throughout Paraná with the help of other mayors and their spouses.
	www.illahee.org /lectures/archive/jaimelernerlecture (1035 words)

	CEE E-News - by Bridging The Gap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jaime Lerner's ideas and leadership transformed Curitiba, Brazil (population 1.7 million) into an internationally acclaimed model for sustainability and livability.
		Jaime Lerner is a visionary architect and urban planner who served three terms as mayor of Curitiba, two terms as Governor of the Brazilian State of Paraná; and a recently completed term as president of the International Union of Architects.
		Lerner is perhaps best known for his innovations in bus rapid transit (BRT) system design that achieved performance comparable to a light rail system at a fraction of the construction cost and time.
	www.bridgingthegap.org /E-news/mar06/Jaime_Lerner_article_v2n2.html (256 words)

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		Lerner became mayor in 1971 and embarked on a path that has gained him worldwide respect and admiration for his visionary leadership in transforming Curitiba into what some planners call the most environmentally advanced urban area on Earth.
		Today, Lerner is Governor of Parana State and is known for his innovations in mobility and land use.
		Jaime Lerner, The Curitiba Bus System Transportation Experiences and Options in Developing Countries, edited by Mia Layne Birk and Deborah Lynn Bleviss, International Institute for Energy Conservation, June 1991.
	www.communityconnexion.com /article/09-00/vision.html (1171 words)

	Welcome to Sustainable Philadelphia - Forums
		In between his first two mayoral terms, in 1975 Lerner became a consultant on Urban Affairs for the United Nations.
		Aftter completing his mayoral terms, Lerner twice was elected Governor of the state of Paraná (1995-98; 1999-2002), where he performed a social and economic transformation that altered the state’s profile with policies of industrialization, infrastructure modernization, job training, and quality of life improvements for urban and rural residents.
		Outside the public limelight, Lerner has had an intense professional record in architecture and urbanism.
	www.sustainablephiladelphia.com /forums/biography/jaime_lerner.html (339 words)

	Interview - January/February 2006 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		All it takes, Lerner says, are a few relatively simple modifications—dedicated lanes in the center of the street where transit vehicles run unimpeded, "boarding tubes" where passengers pay fares before their bus arrives, and curb-level entries so they board and exit quickly—and a hefty dose of political will.
		Jaime Lerner: We started by trying to understand what mass transit is and what it should be: fast, comfortable, reliable.
		Lerner: Only the investments in the infrastructure, which is just preparing the dedicated lanes and boarding facilities.
	www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200601/interview.asp (1191 words)

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		Elected Governor of Paraná; in 1994, re-elected in 1998, Jaime Lerner promoted the greatest economic and social transformation in the history of the State through a program encompassing the questions of land use, transport, sanitation, health, education, recreation and culture.
		UNICEF awarded Lerner the Child and Peace Prize in 1990 for his innovative programs "'Da Rua para a Escola'" (From the Street to School), "'Protegendo a Vida'" (Protecting Life), and "'Universidade do Professor'" (Professor's University).
		He is a United Nations consultant in urban planning and winner of many awards and distinctions, notably: the 1996 UNICEF Children and Peace Award; The Netherlands Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development in 2000; the World Technology Award from the National Museum of Science and Industry in 2001.
	www.wcit.org /topics/csr/BRAZIL_Bio-JaimeLerner.htm (322 words)

	Public Theology: Vision for New Orleans: A Human City
		One person who has an idea of what right and wrong mean is Jaime Lerner, the three-time mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, who is widely recognized as a genius at making cities work.
		Lerner is a longtime proponent of what might be called "blitz urbanism:" the rapid, workable improvement that does an end-run on bureaucrats and doubters.
		To Lerner, one corollary of the principle that cities should serve people is that transportation should be quick, clean and cheap, both to build and to use.
	www.pubtheo.com /page.asp?pid=1567 (1146 words)

	Curitiba: Jaime Lerner’s Urban Acupuncture - Brazilmax.com
		Such memories might be written off as mere nostalgia had Lerner not dedicated his professional life to recreating the human-scale urban environment he enjoyed as a youth in Curitiba of the 1940s and 1950s.
		Lerner would grow up to serve three terms as mayor of his hometown, Brazil’s seventh largest city (population 1.7 million by the 2000 census) and capital of Paraná state, before moving over to the statehouse for two terms as governor.
		Lerner’s approach to the revitalization of cities depends on the relative agility of local policymakers.
	www.brazilmax.com /news.cfm/tborigem/pl_south/id/10 (633 words)

	Amazon.com: "Jaime Lerner": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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		One of the key actors in the success of Curitiba is Jaime Lerner who has served three terms as mayor of the city over the past 25 years and is now the Governor...
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	www.amazon.com /phrase/Jaime-Lerner (585 words)

	Jaime Lerner - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Jaime Lerner en la presentación de uno de sus libros en 2004
		Lerner nació en una familia de inmigrantes polacos.
		En 1975, Lerner fue Consultor de Asuntos Urbanos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaime_Lerner (644 words)

	Upcoming.org: Jaime Lerner, mayor of Curitiba Brazil, on sustainable urban planning at Benaroya Hall (Monday, April 10, ...
		Jaime Lerner, mayor of Curitiba Brazil, on sustainable urban planning
		GGLO is thrilled to present Jaime Lerner?s lecture on April 10, 2006 so that those in our region are able to share his experience in Curitiba, Brazil.
		Lerner (and many others) and to see firsthand many of the success stories that are his legacy.
	upcoming.org /event/68969 (168 words)

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