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Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner

Brazilian Politician

Born: Dec 17, 1937

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Related authors: Eduardo Paes Fernando Haddad Jair Bolsonaro Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Michel Temer Roberto Unger Tancredo Neves

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. Jaime Lerner

Life You Car Will Rule Like Mother-In-Law Your

Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city. Jaime Lerner

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. Jaime Lerner

Death Me You Sustainable Development Run Scared About Guys Write Development Always How Sustainable Anything Ask Then

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. Jaime Lerner

Architecture Tree City More Beautifully Than Little Designed

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport. Jaime Lerner

Problem Car Every City Deal Public Transport

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true. Jaime Lerner

People Assume Simply True Ideas Most Lot Effective Expensive

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything. Jaime Lerner

Everything Like Bureaucracy Fungus

A system of bus rapid transit is not only dedicated lanes. You have to have really good boarding conditions - that means paying before entering the bus and boarding at the same level. And at the same time having a good schedule and frequency. Jaime Lerner

Time Good You Before System Entering Rapid Having Only Schedule Frequency Conditions Same Same Level Same Time Boarding Bus Transit Really Means Dedicated Paying Level

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash. Jaime Lerner

Others Our Accept Forever Ask Trash

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