标题：CITY GIFTS: A BOOK REVIEW OF TRIUMPH OF THE CITY: HOW OUR GREATEST INVENTION MAKES US RICHER, SMARTER, GREENER, HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER. EDWARD GLEASER, PENGUIN PRESS, 2011
摘要：Well back in the 1980s when his own city, Curitiba, was making headlines for its innovative urban development process, Jaime Lerner, a successful mayor and renowned urban planner, used to say that cities are not part of the problem, but part of the solution. With an unwavering faith in the ability of urban centers to improve living conditions, Lerner was not unaware of the plight of city dwellers in many countries, including his own, Brazil. Yet, he was also convinced that with proper interventions, in what he called “urban acupuncture”, cities could regenerate themselves through more mobility, the opening of public spaces and the expansion of public services. If Curitiba did this other cities could do so as well. The interventions that he developed and implemented, and that were not discarded by his successors in City Hall, not only transformed Curitiba into a reference for urban planning in Brazil but also brought to the forefront the centrality of cities as loci of progress in the development struggles of the 21st century.
