Started by Ola Brekke (@ola_brekke) ·
Brasília was designed from scratch in under 4 years
Shaped like an airplane (or a bird, depending on who you ask), built in about 41 months, inaugurated 1960. Gorgeous buildings. Famously hard to walk around.
6 sources · 44 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “brasilia planned city history”
- Ended at
- Planned community
The Trail
- “brasilia planned city history” (google.com)
- Brasília (en.wikipedia.org)
- Lúcio Costa (en.wikipedia.org)
- Oscar Niemeyer (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cathedral of Brasília (en.wikipedia.org)
- Planned community (en.wikipedia.org)
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