Publication's IaaC - ACUPUNTURA URBANA

Jaime Lerner

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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has published in Spanish 'Urban Acupuncture’ of the Brazilian Jaime Lerner, a book in which the author reflects on the problems of urbanism and the society.

Lerner, president of the Union Internacional de Arquitectos (UIA), gathers in the book incidents and anecdotes happened in different cities and times through its acute glance.

The work supposes a warning on the capacity of society to transform the places in which lives and a reflection so that the things that cause cities to exist continue renewed and improved and on the necessary tools to treat a city.

In the introduction of the book, Lerner asks "why certain cities obtain important and positive transformations", to which he responds that "in them a beginning was caused, an awakening (...) a good acupuncture. True urban acupuncture ".

Jaime Lerner (Curitiba, 1937) is a city planning and an architect and and was during three legislatures Mayor of his native city. He has gained diverse prizes in Brazil and the rest of the world, doctor ' honoris causa ‘ by University of Cracovia and president of UIA from 2002.