Jaime Lerner
| Jaime Lerner | |
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Lerner in 2004
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| Governor of Paraná | |
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In office 1995–2002 |
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| Preceded by | Mário Pereira |
| Succeeded by | Roberto Requião |
| 76th Mayor of Curitiba | |
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In office 1989–1992 |
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| Preceded by | Edgar Dantas Pimentel |
| Succeeded by | Donato Gulin |
| 73th Mayor of Curitiba | |
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In office 1979–1983 |
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| Preceded by | Saul Raiz |
| Succeeded by | Maurício Fruet |
| 70th Mayor of Curitiba | |
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In office 1971–1974 |
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| Preceded by | Roberto Requião |
| Succeeded by | Rafael Greca |
| Personal details | |
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December 17, 1937 Curitiba, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Paraná |
| Profession | Architect |
| Website | JaimeLerner |
Jaime Lerner (born December 17, 1937) is 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 (1971–75, 1979–84 and 1989–92). In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Paraná, and was reelected in 1998.
Lerner was born to a Jewish family originally from Łódź, Poland who emigrated to Curitiba. He graduated from the Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade Federal do Paraná; (Architecture School of the Federal University of Paraná) in 1964. In 1965, he helped create the Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba (Institute of Urban Planning and Research of Curitiba, also known as IPPUC) and participated in the design of the Curitiba Master Plan.
In 1988, Jaime Lerner announced his candidacy for mayor of Curitiba with only 12 days remaining before the election. During his first term, Lerner implemented the Rede Integrada de Transporte (also called Bus Rapid Transit), and continued to implement a host of social, ecological, and urban reforms during his ensuing terms as mayor.
As mayor, Lerner employed unorthodox solutions to Curitiba's geographic challenges. Like many cities, Curitiba is bordered by floodplain. Wealthier cities in the United States, such as New Orleans and Sacramento, have built expensive and expensive-to-maintain levee systems on floodplain. In contrast, Curitiba purchased the floodplain and made parks. The city now ranks among the world leaders in per-capita park area. Curitiba had the problem of its status as a third-world city, unable to afford the tractors and petroleum to mow these parks. The innovative response was "municipal sheep" who keep the parks' vegetation under control and whose wool funds children's programs.
When Lerner became mayor, Curitiba had some barrios impossible to service by municipal waste removal. The "streets" were too narrow. Rather than abandon these people or raze these slums, Lerner began a program that traded bags of groceries and transit passes for bags of trash. The slums got much cleaner.
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