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Palestra - MAJORA CARTER





"A AVAAL está a organizar um encontro sobre ecologia cívica e criação  de empregos verdes em áreas urbanas em crise, e terá como cabeça de  cartaz a oradora Majora Carter, considerada uma das mais importantes  ambientalistas sociais do século, fundadora da  Sustainable South Bronx e  do BEST – Bronx Environmental Stewardship Program, programas de  reconhecido mérito e inovação na revitalização urbana e criação de  empregos verdes.
O encontro ocorrerá no próximo dia 7 de Junho, segunda-feira, pelas  17h00, nas instalações do CUPAV (ao lado do Colégio São João de Brito,  no Lumiar)."

Transportes
Metro: Lumiar
Autocarro: 3, 108, 701



Fonte:
http://www.viverlisboa.org/?p=7967

Jaime Lerner, Palestra para TED


About this talk
Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible in the metropolitan landscape.


About Jaime Lerner
From building opera houses with wire to mapping the connection between the automobile and your mother-in-law, Jaime Lerner delights in discovering eccentric solutions to vexing urban problems.…


Why you should listen to him:
For many city governments seeking visible improvements in their congested streets, the pace of change is measured in months and years. For Jaime Lerner, it's measured in hours. As mayor of Curitiba, he transformed a gridlocked commercial artery into a spacious pedestrian mall over a long weekend, before skeptical merchants had time to finish reading their Monday papers.

Since then he's become a hero not only to his fellow Brazilians, but also to the growing ranks of municipal planners seeking greener, more sustainable cities. His dictum that "creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget" has inspired a number of his unique solutions to urban problems, including sheltered boarding tubes to improve speed of bus transit; a garbage-for-food program allowing Curitibans to exchange bags of trash for bags of groceries; and trimming parkland grasses with herds of sheep.

In addition to serving three terms as mayor of Curitiba, Lerner has twice been elected governor of Parana State in Brazil. His revolutionary career in urban planning and architecture has not only improved cities worldwide, but has also brought him international renown. Among his many awards are the United Nations Environmental Award (1990), the Child and Peace Award from UNICEF (1996), and the 2001 World Technology Award for Transportation.

"Lerner is a longtime proponent of what might be called "blitz urbanism": the rapid, workable improvement that does an end run on bureaucrats and doubters"
Justin Davidson, Newsday

Página do Arq. Jaime Lerner:
http://www.jaimelerner.com/principal/index.asp

Fonte:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/213
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/jaime_lerner.html