A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.
The car is the cigarette of the future.
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
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.
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.