Jaime Lerner
Jaime Lerner
Jaime Lerneris a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times. In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Paraná, and was reelected in 1998...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 December 1937
CountryBrazil
cities problem solutions
The city is not the problem; the city is the solution,
fungi bureaucracy government-bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
mother law car
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
years cities world
Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.
zero creativity cutting
Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.
running writing guy
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.
creativity cities tree
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
cities problem solutions
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
cities together function
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
car cigarette
The car is the cigarette of the future
two car trying
I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
dream climate noble
There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.
taken believe cities
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.
dream responsibility cities
There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.