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Region. Latin America and the Caribbean. Brasília (/ brəˈzɪliə / brə-ZIL-ee-ə, [5][6] Brazilian Portuguese: [bɾaˈzili.ɐ, bɾaˈziljɐ] ⓘ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino ...
- May Utopia Overcome Dystopia
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- On The Small Experiences of Urban Life in The Heart of Brasília
- It's All Brasilia!
by Daniel Mangabeira - Bloco Arquitetos Brasília and quarantine are antagonistic. This city was not invented for cloistered residents. Obviously no cities were designed for this, but the Plano Piloto de Brasília has particularities that make seclusion the antithesis of what it was meant to be. Lucio Costa's French-affiliated city was born to be fre...
by Gabriela Cascelli Farinasso e Luiza Dias Coelho - Arquitetas inVisíveis Behind every great man is a great woman. A saying as common as it is ancient, has for years synthesized the relationship between architects-, and with Brasília, it would be no different. The process of creating the new Capital has forever cemented the names of Brazilian men ...
by Maribel Aliaga Fuentes - Professor at the Department of Design, Expression and Representation at FAU-UnB Today I decided to venture into a new world outside the Superquadras circuit. Early in the morning I left the Setor Hoteleiro Sul near Parque da Cidade towards Eixinho, crossed the W3 and went down the internal street of the southern commerci...
by Luiz Eduardo Sarmento - architect and urban planner at IPHAN and Senior Adviser at IAB-DF. "(...) I felt this movement, this intense life of the true Brasilians (...). This is all very different from what I had imagined for this urban center (...). Those Brazilians took care of it who built the city and are legitimately there. In fact, the dream...
- Victor Delaqua
Apr 17, 2020 · Brasilia "has the shape of a circumference -- so big that from the top of the 28-storey skyscraper where the parliament's administrative services will be housed the (city) boundaries will not be ...
Oct 2, 2024 · Brasilia, city, capital of Brazil. Located in the Federal District within Goias state on the central plateau of Brazil, it lies between the headwaters of the Tocantins, Parana, and Sao Francisco rivers. Because of its unique city plan and architecture, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 20, 2020 · Abstract. In 1891, Brazil’s constitution decreed that at some point in the future the capital would be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a new location towards the interior of the country. In the 1960s, the capital was moved to Brasília. While one of the wealthiest cities in Brazil today, there were significant costs to building Brasília.
- Jared Kelly
- 2020
Aug 21, 2020 · Its own capital city, Washington D.C., had the benefit of being planned from scratch at the turn of the 19th century, as did the Australian capital of Canberra, which followed a century later.
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Jun 30, 2020 · One of the first impressions a first-time visitor has of Brasília, Brazil’s uniquely modernist capital city, is: where are all the people?At least, that was my impression upon alighting at the central bus station for the first time, 22 years ago, and taking a ride down the Monumental Axis — an avenue with six lanes on each side, separated by a huge grass median the size of many amateur ...
