BRAZIL
Curitiba
● Cambio verde, provides food for those who sort and pick up waste. This
solves littering problems, food security problems and makes a city more
sustainable as more recycling. Offers a sense of employment
● Arterial roads with trams. Trams travel on separate roads running
through city. Trams are very fast so encourages people to use them,
reduces the amount of cars (pollution) and the amount of traffic
(improves q of l)
Rio
● Self help schemes, governments provide loans and tools to upgrade
homes.
● Government are aiming to extend infrastructure such as bus lanes and
water pipes into favelas to make them more liveable
LAGOS
● High rates of urbanisation outweighs housing supply so informal
settlements have grown.
-> Many informal settlements are built in dangerous areas (above the
lagoon) and are far away from regulation ( no services like sanitation )
● Many people ride outdated polluting cars as theyre cheap
● Car usage outweighs road capacity = traffic
● Population growth outweigh basically everything (healthcare+education)
LONDON
PROBLEMS
● High prices for food
● Traffic (lots of waiting + pollution)
● Waste ( ruins local environment)
● High energy prices
RESOLUTION
● ULEZ, Congestion charge and bus lanes
● Landfill tax
● Subsidies for installing solar panels
Curitiba
● Cambio verde, provides food for those who sort and pick up waste. This
solves littering problems, food security problems and makes a city more
sustainable as more recycling. Offers a sense of employment
● Arterial roads with trams. Trams travel on separate roads running
through city. Trams are very fast so encourages people to use them,
reduces the amount of cars (pollution) and the amount of traffic
(improves q of l)
Rio
● Self help schemes, governments provide loans and tools to upgrade
homes.
● Government are aiming to extend infrastructure such as bus lanes and
water pipes into favelas to make them more liveable
LAGOS
● High rates of urbanisation outweighs housing supply so informal
settlements have grown.
-> Many informal settlements are built in dangerous areas (above the
lagoon) and are far away from regulation ( no services like sanitation )
● Many people ride outdated polluting cars as theyre cheap
● Car usage outweighs road capacity = traffic
● Population growth outweigh basically everything (healthcare+education)
LONDON
PROBLEMS
● High prices for food
● Traffic (lots of waiting + pollution)
● Waste ( ruins local environment)
● High energy prices
RESOLUTION
● ULEZ, Congestion charge and bus lanes
● Landfill tax
● Subsidies for installing solar panels