Urban Acupuncture, Celebrating Pinpricks of Change that Enrich City Life

摘要

This slim volume takes the readers through many parts of the world where street life abounds and urban designers have pursued doable solutions for urban ills. Lerner's dual role as designer and politician gave him the opportunity to put into practice his ideas of how to make his city, Curitiba, more sustainable. It was a particular challenge to shift people from their cars to public transport in a city with a dominant car industry, and so his ingenious rapid transit system has been copied in many other places. However, such gains can be short-lived and the reversal from 70 per cent car users to 70 per cent public transport riders waned, which meant continuous integrated innovation - improving buses, using bio-fuel, adding digital information and a metro system.