ABSTRACT
Why did Curitiba succeed where others have faltered? Progressive city administrations turned Curitiba into a living laboratory for a style of urban development based on a preference for public
As late as the end of the nineteenth century even a visionary like Jules Verne could not imagine a city with more than a million inhabitants. Yet by the year 2010 over 500 such concentrations will dot the globe, 26 of them with more than 10 million people. Indeed, for the first time in history more people now live in cities than in rural areas.
