Brasilia was planned for a population of just 500,000, but today this has risen to 2.8 million and more than four million including satellite towns.

The South American master-planned capital is monumental hubris and soul-crushing to its inhabitants.

Having begun in Belo Horizonte, next up on the list is national capital Brasilia—the archetypal-planned city. The most modern of all the host cities, its unique nature and cooler climate will ...

In Asia, the post image of planned communities is Abuja, the administrative capital of Nigeria. The government approved the master plan for the city in 1979 with a similar idea to Brasilia.

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.

But does it work as a city? Brasilia was planned from scratch as an ideal city and built on an empty plateau. Niemeyer was the architect and Lucio Costa the urban planner.

Brasília, Brazil’s capital city, stands as one of the most ambitious and controversial urban planning projects of the 20th century. Conceived in the 1950s by visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer ...

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Horizon City is celebrating 30 years of incorporation this year. The first attempts at incorporation came in 1977 and 1983, but residents finally approved the effort 424 to 370 on Aug. 13, 1988.

Brasilia was planned for a population of just 500,000, but today this has risen to 2.8 million and more than four million including satellite towns.