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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.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. | | | Product Details: | | | Director:
| Giovanni Vaz Del Bello | | Format:
| NTSC | | Language:
| English, Portuguese | | Studio:
| Maria Vaz Photography | | Run Time:
| 52 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 21, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Frustrated with poor city planning?Oct 10, 2007
By H. Livingston
"wavehaven"
This film is a must see for anyone involved in urban/regional planning, city councils, and concerned citizens. Curitiba debunks the myths that logical solutions to cities biggest problems only exist on paper or take billions of dollars to develop. A well made and inspiring documentary. When you see what they've done here, you will realize that our standard of living in the US is not really so high and solutions are far easier than our leaders lead us to believe.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Courage to ChangeSep 05, 2008
By Wyepacket
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.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Cities can do itNov 30, 2007
By Ronald W. Haldeman
This film that tells what one city in Brazil has done to make a difference on the problems facing most cities. The film is great for it gives you a feeling that there is a chance. The one problem is that only about half is in English and the other has subtitles. It would have been better to have voice over, but the film is great
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
positive experienceOct 18, 2007
By L. Mahaffey
"faery125"
I would have never seen this film if I hadn't gone to the Santa Cruz Pacific Rim film festival. It's a movie worth passing onto others if they haven't seen it yet. a positive documentary about the city of Curitiba, Brazil and how they re-created their city into a healthy, green environment with the little money they had. It made me feel like so many changes are possible for a better place to live in America. Please consider this movie, its only an hour long!
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Look to Curitiba!Feb 15, 2009
By P.K. Ryan
"The Ryan Identity"
This is a very educational DVD for anyone interested in Urban Planning, sustainability, the "green" movement, etc. The documentary covers the transformation of the city of Curitiba, Brazil from a poor, backward city into what they now regard as one of the most livable cities in the world. The filmmakers talk to the city mayor, along with the planners, architects and citizens who helped to implement these innovative urban solutions to the common problems of the modern, urban world. The issues covered include public transportation, recycling, affordable housing and landscape modification. Such innovations like special lanes exclusively for efficient buses, buying trash from citizens to clean up the favelas, and turning dangerous flood plains into modified public parks(not to mention using sheep to trim the grass!) are some of the interesting policies that Curitiba has utilized. I also found notable that the entire project was done with a focus on job creation, that is they made a concerted effort to put as many citizens to work as possible, encouraged entrepreneurship, and offered various types of education and job training for citizens.
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