Urban Brazil: Visions, Afflictions, and Governance Lessons
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figure

ix

List of Illustrations

x

Foreword

xiii

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xxi

Acronyms

xxv

Introduction

xxvii

Chapter 1: Studying Urban Governance

1

The Inquiry and Explanatory Factors

8

Urbanization: Past and Present

14

The Urban Political Economy

19

City Programs

24

Chapter 2: Coping with Urban Problems

35

Urban Mobility in Curitiba

36

Environmental Management

49

Curitiba: The Incremental Approach on Environmental Quality

53

Continuous Improvement: Curitiba’s Approach to Integrative Urban Development

65