14 Facts About Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner was the governor of the state of Parana, in southern Brazil.

In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Parana, and was re-elected in 1998.

Jaime Lerner graduated from the Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade Federal do Parana; in 1964.

In 1988, Jaime Lerner announced his candidacy for mayor of Curitiba with only 12 days remaining before the election.

Rather than abandon these people or raze these slums, Jaime Lerner began a program that traded bags of groceries and transit passes for bags of trash.

Jaime Lerner began a program that paid fishermen for any garbage they retrieved.

Originally, the city was given federal money to build a subway, but Jaime Lerner discovered that "heavy rail" like a subway costs ten times the amount of "light rail", which, in turn, costs ten times the amount of a bus system, even with dedicated bus ways.

Jaime Lerner got Volvo to make 270 person Swedish articulated buses, so that the problem of a lower passenger-number-to-driver ratio was no longer an issue.

In 2011, Jaime Lerner was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for the illegal layoff of a public tender during his mandate as governor.

At the General Assembly of the International Union of Architects in July 2002, Jaime Lerner was elected president for a period of three years.

Jaime Lerner was a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Universidade Federal do Parana, his alma mater, and has been a guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jaime Lerner was a member of the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.

Jaime Lerner died of kidney disease on May 27,2021, at the age of 83.

Jaime Lerner has won a variety of Brazilian and international prizes:.