A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
by Giovanni Vaz Del Bello
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Director: Giovanni Vaz Del BelloWriter: Giovanni Vaz Del Bello
Producer: Maria Terezinha Vaz
Writer: Maria Terezinha Vaz
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 52 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-21
Studio: Maria Vaz Photography
DVD Reviews of A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
DVD Review: Courage to Change
Summary: 5 Stars
Environmental changes you always hoped could happen are documented in this delightful, enlightening film.
Take an ordinary, not-so-beautiful, not-so-successful, non-environmentally positive town and think. A vision to improve in 3 major areas became reality; public and private transportation were revamped, housing created and improved, and recycling became a matter of public pride. Beautiful parks were created on top of blighted areas and dumps. The city of Curitiba became a destination instead of a place to pass through.
You look at the figures involved in these fantastic changes and say, gee, they look like ordinary people, and yet this whole thing is pure genius!
Then the whine is, Why Can't We Do This In The USA? Is it the bureaucracies? Is it too big an idea for us? It can't be the money -- the project's leaders tell how the projects became self-sufficient and paid for themselves in a short time.
I'm a teacher in Adult Education, where adults receive a High School Diploma (accredited) (not a GED) and I am incorporating this DVD in classes of Economics, Geography, Sociology, and Earth Science. The more people who see it and are inspired by it, the better. I recommend it to everyone on the planet.
Description of A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into cost-effective solutions that can be applied in most cities around the world.A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil is an informative, inspirational documentary aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world.
A CONVENIENT TRUTH: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil includes exclusive interviews from world renowned Curitiba's mayors Jaime Lerner and Cassio Tanigushi, as well as other brilliant minds who made Curitiba a world class model.
In a time of so many inconveniences, it's good to know of places where things are done conveniently right.
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