tabula rasa 02.12.10

city form: planning

 
Brasilia was not the first city to be designed from scratch (look at Washington DC), but it is certainly unique in expression, being a thoroughly Modernist city in conception and execution. The most monumental product of the collaboration between Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, the city was invented as the replacement of Rio de Janeiro as capital of Brazil in 1960. This year celebrating its 50th anniversary, Brasilia has evolved beyond what its designers originally envisioned, in some ways highlighting the problems inherent in planning of the era, such as a scale that preferenced the automobile over the pedestrian and treated public transportation as an aside; and housing solutions that were more utopian than realistic, resulting in tense social division.http://www.brasiliabrazil.info/brasilia-facts.htmlcity_plate-washington_dc.htmlhttp://www.superbrasilia.com/http://the-artists.org/artist/Lucio-Costario_de_janeiro.htmlhttp://www.brasilia50anos.com.br/http://www.brasilia50anos.com.br/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b3e4348a-a8a2-11de-9242-00144feabdc0.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7