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Virginia Fund's 'Virtual Field Trip' to a Progressive Brazilian City
By NICOLE WALLACE
The sights and sounds of Curitiba, Brazil -- and information about the city's innovative urban-planning policies -- are featured on a new Web site.
Faced with increasing urban sprawl in the 1960's, Curitiba adopted policies to encourage growth along public-transportation corridors. Today, 75 percent of the city's commuters...