Brasília, Plan and Reality
Brasília, Plan and Reality

Author: David G. Epstein

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1973-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780520022034

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A masterful account of Brasilia, the city of the future, where Brazil's continental destiny was to be fulfilled, where government would be efficient and functional, without the interference of radical students and labor leaders. The building of the city was a gigantic public-works program, reflecting the various ties that existed between the planners on one hand and the contractors and suppliers on the other. Epstein gives a detailed account of the pilot plan and the rise of satellite towns between 1957 and 1967. The planners dreamed of a city that would transcend the frustrations of urban life in the underdeveloped world, but they failed to provide a sector where the actual builders of the dream city would live. Shacktowns soon developed, and have expanded to accommodate migrants--often displaced, landless cultivators--who continue to be attracted to the city. The conclusion Epstein comes to is that urban squatting will remain a prominent feature of Brasilia, a part of a system deeply rooted in local, national, and global structure and ideology. Until there are revolutionary changes in society, squatting and shantytowns will be a fact of life in the underdeveloped world.

The Modernist City
The Modernist City

Author: James Holston

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-09-08

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0226349799

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The utopian design and organization of Brasília—the modernist new capital of Brazil—were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.

Before Brasília
Before Brasília

Author: Mary C. Karasch

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0826357636

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Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history. Karasch effectively counters the “decadence” narrative that has dominated the historiography of Goiás. She shifts the focus from the declining white elite to an expanding free population of color, basing her conclusions on sources previously unavailable to scholars that allow her to meaningfully analyze the impacts of geography and ethnography. Karasch studies the progression of this society as it evolved from the slaving frontier of the seventeenth century to a majority free population of color by 1835. As populations of indigenous and African captives and their descendants grew throughout Brazil, so did resistance and violent opposition to slavery. This comprehensive work explores the development of frontier violence and the enslavements that ultimately led to the consolidation of white rule over a majority population of color, both free and enslaved.

Building Brasilia
Building Brasilia

Author: Kenneth Frampton

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500515426

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Published on the occasion of Brasilia's fiftieth anniversary: a celebration in contemporary photography of the building of Brazil's capital city.

The Art of Brasília
The Art of Brasília

Author: Sophia Beal

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 3030371379

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People from outside of Brasília often dismiss Brazil’s capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold. Apparently its founders created not a vibrant capital, but a cultural wasteland. However, as Sophia Beal argues, Brasília’s contemporary artists are out to prove the skeptics wrong. These twenty-first-century artists are changing how people think about the city and animating its public spaces. They are recasting Brasília as a vibrant city of the arts in which cultural production affirms a creative right to the city. Various genres—prose, poetry, film, cultural journalism, music, photography, graffiti, street theater, and street dance—play a part. Brasília’s initial 1960s art was state-sanctioned, carried out mainly by privileged, white men. In contrast, the capital’s contemporary art is marked by its diversity, challenging norms about who has a voice within the Brasília art scene. This art demystifies the capital’s inequities and imagines alternative ways of inhabiting the city.

Before Brasília
Before Brasília

Author: Mary C. Karasch

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0826357628

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PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change -- 8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces -- 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations -- 10: Defenders of the Conquest and Useful Vassals: The Free People of Color -- CONCLUSION: Reflections on Frontiers/Borderlands of Central Brazil -- APPENDIX A: Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil -- APPENDIX B : Censuses -- APPENDIX C: Colonial Churches and Lay Brotherhoods in the Captaincy of Goiás -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa
Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa

Author:

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1836241119

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The site of Recife's Brasília Teimosa favela emerged as a flash point of economic and political interests in the 1930s and the scene of subsequent strife into the 1980s. The name of this district is a contemptuous allusion to the new capital of Brazil, with its forward-thinking planning policies and urban design, in stark contrast to the favela. This concise account unearths events surfacing through periods of revolution, dictatorship, populism, Cuban Communism, the 1964 military coup d'etat and crackdown to the amplified reverberation of civil society voices and engagement decades later. Shifting ideologies and jolting transitions between regimes directly affected what occurred on this 110-acre parcel of urban land. Between 1934 and 1984 competing groups and individuals came to covet this space because of its strategic location and political consequence. Brasília Teimosa is about the politics of ouster and the power of resistance. What took place there still resonates in squatter settlements throughout Brazil; deplorable living conditions prevalent in favelas are the result of deprivation of access to market resources. This work examines the interactions between the state and neighbourhood associations regarding the allocation of public goods and services in the context of urban resources and their system of supply. In particular it focuses on the political struggles of shanty residents of Brasília Teimosa that are pertinent to the provision of and access to urban land tenure. Control and use of public lands have functioned as instruments of the state to pursue political projects in coalition with private real estate partners, to undermine the strength of opposing factions, or to seal populist pacts with the urban poor who, as illegal occupants of public land, are locked into a dependency relationship with the state. As will be shown, the residents of Brasília Teimosa discovered and exploited "space" for political manoeuvres in order to secure permanence on a centrally located, publicly-owned site.

Brasília Travel Guide - English Edition
Brasília Travel Guide - English Edition

Author: Gabriel Freitas Angst

Publisher: Formigas Viajantes

Published: 2020-10-25

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13:

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Brasília Travel Guide in English! More than 30 places to visit (all with pictures), restaurants, malls, among other things.

Brasília Gigapan Photo Essay
Brasília Gigapan Photo Essay

Author: Don Rocha

Publisher: Circulus LLC

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13:

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Brasília Gigapan Photo Essay Brasília the modernist utopia This eBook brings hundreds of pictures of Brasília's most iconic modernist architecture and art, along with a brief info of each monument, piece or building. Don Rocha shot Brasília using Gigapan panoramic equipment which is based on the same technology employed by the Mars Rovers. Gigapan robotic mounts take hundreds photos, which are later combined using a stitching software to create a single highly detailed image. We can then select parts of this photo to zoom in on, and zoom in. Then zoom in some more. There's no part of the photo we can't see in ridiculous detail. Inaugurated in 1960, Brasilia – the capital city of Brazil is a masterpiece of modernist architecture. It is the only city in the world built in the 20th century to be awarded (in 1987) the status of Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. The city was planned and developed with Lúcio Costa as the principal urban planner and Oscar Niemeyer as the principal architect. Lúcio Costa planned the streets in such a way that even traffic lights would not be necessary: cars and buses would take thoroughfares to travel long distances, then would use one of several loops to gain access to local streets to reach specific destinations. Much of the original planning has been affected, mostly because of the growth of Brasília and many other factors. Planned for only 500,000 inhabitants, Brasília has seen its population grow much more than expected. It has now a population of about 3 million making it the third largest city in Brazil. “Brasília seems the ultimate modernist fantasy: pristine, elegant, refined , and a remarkable demonstration of lucidity. Don Rocha’s shots seem to offer a sumptuousness to that vision. The light, color and panorama provide an exoticism.The modernist utopia of a socially ambitious beauty comes unhinged, when we see in the shadow of the great civic buildings, children living amongst the trees." Don Rocha's photographs offer a unique perspective on Brasília. They allow us to see the city in a way that we would not be able to see it otherwise. They are a testament to the beauty and power of modern architecture, and they are a reminder of the potential that Brasília has to be a great city.