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The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
Jaime Lerner
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
Jaime Lerner
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
Jaime Lerner
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
Jaime Lerner
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
Jaime Lerner
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
Jaime Lerner
After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.
Jaime Lerner
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
Jaime Lerner
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.
Jaime Lerner
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.'
Jaime Lerner
Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.
Jaime Lerner
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.
Jaime Lerner
We can't have landfills forever and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
Jaime Lerner
We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
Jaime Lerner
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
Jaime Lerner
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
Jaime Lerner
The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
Jaime Lerner
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.
Jaime Lerner
