The document summarizes the planning and design of Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil. It describes how Brasilia was intentionally planned inland to serve as the capital, with the goal of national unity and regional development. The plan featured a cross-shaped layout with separate zones and extensive green space. However, issues arose with high housing costs, inefficient transit, and displacement of poor residents to distant satellite towns.

1. Planning and Designing
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2. Brief History
 Before Brasilia the capital of Brazil was Rio de Janerio
 Brasilia was officially opened on April 22nd 1960
 The first Brazilian capitals were built by the cost
 The government decided to move the capital to a more interior area
 The architect Lucio Costa appointed to plan the new capital
 Planners called it as the practical example of development of regional areas
- Regional development
- Administrative purpose
 The city plan was based on the idea of Le Corbusier

3. Reasons of Creation
 Locate the capital to an inland location
 Fear of invasions to previous capital Rio de Janeiro
 To create a growth center
 To enhance a spirit of national unity

4. Plan of Brasilia
 Lucio Costa’s plan for the city was detailed
 It stipulates which zones are to be residential and commercial
 It limits where industries can settle, where certain buildings can be built and how tall
those buildings

5. Layout Plan
 The basic plan was a simple cross
 There was already plans for the artificial lake
 The city gained the shape of an aero plane symbolizing
the fastest way out of town
 City pointing like an arrow into the future
 Two interesting access
- Monumental axis
- Residential axis
 Wind direction and smoke of the industries not to be towards the residential area

7. Circulation Network
 Motorcar is dominated in circulation system
 Separate roads for local traffic & for through traffic
 No independent pedestrian ways except very few pedestrian malls

8. Designed city has 4 scales
 Monumental Scale
 Residential Scale
 Social Scale
 Bucolic Scale

9. Types of Settlements
 Row houses
 Super blocks
 Satellite towns

10. Residential Super Blocks
 Each group should have
- A church
- A secondary school
- A movie house
- A youth club
- Adequate field space for children to play
 Each building goes only six stories high
 Lower building for commercial business in between
super blocks

11. Satellite Towns
 Several satellite towns have been created over the years through house the extra
inhabitants
 Planned for only for ½ million inhabitants
Aerial view of Sobradinho, one of Brasilia's satellite
towns

12. Recreational Areas
 Botanical garden
 Zoo
 Brasilia national park
 25 m2 of green space
 Contains the highest concentration
(for the best known Brazilian artist)

13. Positive Aspects of Brasilia
 Not threatened by any kind of natural disaster
 Virtually no air pollution
 Many and large green areas
 Good climate
 In original plan there were no traffic lights

14. Negative Aspects of Brasilia
 Housing prices are very high
 Public transportation is inefficient
 Great distance between the buildings
 Newer satellite town have very few green areas unlike the pilot plan
 Many of the famous buildings are beautiful but not functional
 The city has been acclaimed for its use of modernist architecture on a grand scale
 The city was not designed on a pedestrian scale
 The displacement of poor residents too far away in satellite towns

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