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As mayor of Curitiba in Brazil, Jaime Lerner turned heads with his forward-thinking schemes. He took the kids off the streets by paying them to clean them up and had fishermen angling for rubbish so they could work off-season. He still lives in the city, working as an architect and urban planner.
Photographer: Tuca Vieira Writer: Ian Mount
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