Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
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.
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.