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

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

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

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 difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.