Curitiba Metro Moves Ahead
On Tuesday, May 15, Mayor Luciano Ducci announced the opening of bidding for the first Curitiba Metro. “Curitiba has worked hard on the project and fulfilled all the necessary requirements to earn public approval. The City has also worked with the federal government to improve modeling and is now ready to start the bidding process,” More...
Annual Oncology Symposium
Mayor Luciano Ducci presided at the opening of Onco Curitiba 2012, the annual oncology symposium on Friday, April 20. This year the symposium is addressing issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of More...
Curitiba Program Targets Chemical Dependency
Patients with chemical dependency problems who use the public health system can now participate in a specific treatment program in Curitiba. The service begins at health clinics and may involve specific hospitals, More...
Mayor Ducci Announces Curitiba’s Newest Park
Mayor Luciano Ducci announced Friday morning, March 16, that we’ll be seeing a new park in Curitiba: Vista Alegre de Mercês Park. The 100,000 m2 of green space will stretch between Gardênio Scorzato and Luiz More...
Curitiba Mother’s Program Goes Global
The Curitiba Mother’s Program, which Mayor Luciano Ducci initiated to provide maternity and child care in Curitiba, will now be adopted by the United Nations (UN) in the poor countries of Africa and Asia to help More...
Green Space in Curitiba Gets Even Bigger
Curitiba’s green space index, which was already an impressive 51.5 square meters per inhabitant, just got even better. Based on the new map of forested areas completed by the Municipal Department of the Environment, More...
Sheltering Animals
By Terry Caesar Who was it that said you can tell a lot about a society by its prisons? I’d prefer to claim that you can tell a lot about a society by its animal shelters. Brazil doesn’t come off More...
The Challenge of Multi-Mode Mobility
Certainly one of the biggest challenges in large urban areas today is urban mobility, how to ensure the population who live and work in a city can move in an organized fashion. The world now contains 7 billion More...
Underground Fiber Optics will Control Traffic
INFOVIA – a network of underground fiber optic cable – is being installed as part of the Central Beltway project in Curitiba for intelligent traffic monitoring in the city. “We are investing in More...
Safari of the Senses
The city of Curitiba, considered a model in Brazil, has announced yet another innovative project, this time in the area of visual impairment. “Safari of the Senses” is an initiative of the Municipal More...