bus companies and Mayor Jaime Lerner, 41

business class and urban planning, 101–104

“bus rapid transit,”, 42

bus system performance, 45t

Calderoni, Sabetai, 57Câmbio Verde,, 61, 62

Campo Magro recycling plant, 60

“car cult,”, 137

cars vs. mass transit in São Paulo,, 136, 137

Cedeño, Roberto (Mayor of Managua), 118n3

Ceneviva, Carlos, 96

Center for Human Settlements (United Nations), 53

Cervero, Robert, 42

cities as laboratories, 2

City Limits,, 101

city programs, 24–30

city size, 13, 14

“Community and Urban Forestry Resolution” (US), 29

Compra do Lixo,, 61

Compromisso Empresarial para Reciclagem (CEMPRE),, 64, 65

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Urbano (CDNU),, 109

consensual politics, 101, 103, 108, 111, 114–117

consensus building, 99–106

Constitution of Brazil (1988), 21–23, 114

and city hall functions, 24, 25

and city planning, 138

and municipal responsibilities, 51, 52

Construction Industry Trade Union (SINDUSCON), 107

Consumer Protection and Defense Foundation (PROCON), 58

Costa Ferreira, Marcelo, 13

Covas, Mario (São Paulo Mayor), 141

CURA program, 111

Curitiba, background, 73–86

Curitiba Department of Recreation, 98, 99

Curitiba Economic Development, First Conference on, 103

Curitiba Housing Authority (COHAB), 110

Curitiba Industrial City (CIC), 96, 103–105, 122, 123n34

Curitiba Integrated Transportation Network (RIT), 42

Curitiba Mass Transit System: satisfaction rating, 42;

Tables, 2, 3, 4, 43–46t

“Curitiba of Tomorrow,”, 38, 100

Curitiba urban experiment, 1, 2

Czarniawska, Barbara, 2

Davidoff, Paul, 89, 91

decentralization, negative impact of, 22

Defenda São Paulo,, 148

Dely, Rafael, 112