So, is this a failure of the imagined modernist utopia of Neimeyer? Or is this a failure of the federal government with regards to long term urban planning/development along with a failure to provide a social safety net (healthcare, jobs and education)?
It seems from the article as if even the locals who now must deal with this place the blame on the government, while still finding peace in Neimeyer's "sublime architecture".
Lucio Costa, the urban planner for Brasilia, who probably should be the key person in the article (rather than the iconic architect/architecture) was only mentioned in the footnotes - that puzzles me;
equating the "real Brazil" to "degraded into a violent, crime-ridden sprawl of cacophonous traffic jams." - offends me;
truth is, the city has overgrown its original plan and infrastructure; the notion of brazilian cities growing out-of-control as the poor migrate in search of work is not new, and I do think, imho, that Brasilia should've been planned to accomodate future growth far beyond the original 500k population projection;
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So, is this a failure of the imagined modernist utopia of Neimeyer? Or is this a failure of the federal government with regards to long term urban planning/development along with a failure to provide a social safety net (healthcare, jobs and education)?
It seems from the article as if even the locals who now must deal with this place the blame on the government, while still finding peace in Neimeyer's "sublime architecture".
Lucio Costa, the urban planner for Brasilia, who probably should be the key person in the article (rather than the iconic architect/architecture) was only mentioned in the footnotes - that puzzles me;
equating the "real Brazil" to "degraded into a violent, crime-ridden sprawl of cacophonous traffic jams." - offends me;
truth is, the city has overgrown its original plan and infrastructure; the notion of brazilian cities growing out-of-control as the poor migrate in search of work is not new, and I do think, imho, that Brasilia should've been planned to accomodate future growth far beyond the original 500k population projection;
agreeing with simples, on all counts.
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