If your city doesn’t quite have the critical mass for a subway system (~1 million people), the City of Curitiba, Brazil literally invented a world-renowned alternative at a time when their population was 750,000. It’s been so successful, they’re still a model for BRT even at their present city population of 1.75 million, 3.25 million in the metro, though its phenomenal growth is finally leaning towards building a subway. The award-winning folks at Streetfilms masterfully captures Curitiba’s
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What better way to follow How Facebook can help build better places than with this story from Newcastle, Australia. Founder Marcus Westbury:
“Our project Renew Newcastle—in Newcastle, Australia—began life as a facebook group. Before we ever had a meeting, or an organisation, or a group we went to facebook to see if we could find people who were interested in supporting a scheme to revive the CBD through small scale, and temporary arts and cultural activity.
Within a day we had 100
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