As of 2017, the mayor is Rafael Greca, who replaced Gustavo Fruet.
The City Council of Curitiba has 38 councillors elected since 2004.
Curitiba is divided into nine regional governments (equivalent to subprefecture), who manage the municipality's 75 districts.
The Rua da Cidadania ("Street of Citizenship") is the symbol of administrative decentralization; it is a reference point and a meeting place.
Several units are annexed to public transport terminals.
Their nuclei offer services in the local, state and federal areas.

Jaime Lerner is perhaps Curitiba's best-known mayor.
He has been mayor three times, the first time in the early 1970s.
His leadership was crucial to some major changes in the city.
Curitiba has built parks instead of canals to reduce flooding; used parks to make the city more liveable; pedestrianised the downtown area; built a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), a bus system that works like a light rail system but is 10 times cheaper; and started a massive recycling scheme that included giving people bus tokens in return for waste.

Time magazine listed this former mayor among the world's most influential thinkers of 2010.
In the days before free direct elections, mayors were political appointees who were no more than pawns in the game of power politics and were subject to replacement at any time.
For an idealistic young architect like Lerner, retaining the mayor's office was particularly precarious.
Those holding the reins of power at the time were under the mistaken impression that Lerner's youth would make him easy to control.
As it turned out, he was no milquetoast, and subsequently set about enthusiastically pursuing reform.
As of 2017, the mayor is Rafael Greca, who replaced Gustavo Fruet. The City Council of Curitiba has 38 councillors elected since 2004. Curitiba is divided into nine regional governments (equivalent to subprefecture), who manage the municipality's 75 districts. The Rua da Cidadania ("Street of Citizenship") is the symbol of administrative decentralization; it is a reference point and a meeting place. Several units are annexed to public transport terminals. Their nuclei offer services in the local, state and federal areas.
Jaime Lerner is perhaps Curitiba's best-known mayor. He has been mayor three times, the first time in the early 1970s. His leadership was crucial to some major changes in the city. Curitiba has built parks instead of canals to reduce flooding; used parks to make the city more liveable; pedestrianised the downtown area; built a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), a bus system that works like a light rail system but is 10 times cheaper; and started a massive recycling scheme that included giving people bus tokens in return for waste.
Time magazine listed this former mayor among the world's most influential thinkers of 2010. In the days before free direct elections, mayors were political appointees who were no more than pawns in the game of power politics and were subject to replacement at any time. For an idealistic young architect like Lerner, retaining the mayor's office was particularly precarious. Those holding the reins of power at the time were under the mistaken impression that Lerner's youth would make him easy to control. As it turned out, he was no milquetoast, and subsequently set about enthusiastically pursuing reform.
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