1 posted on
03/13/2020 6:29:23 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Author doesn’t like cars. My guess is he’s not a fan of most American cities.
2 posted on
03/13/2020 6:32:37 AM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: C19fan
is shaped like an airplane with two principal components: the Monumental Axis (east to west) and the Residential Axis (north to south)
shaped like a plane?
3 posted on
03/13/2020 6:34:44 AM PDT by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: C19fan
It’s a great urban plan…if people were 50’ tall.
To: C19fan
5 posted on
03/13/2020 6:42:23 AM PDT by
x
To: C19fan
Curitiba, another Brazilian city, went the other way and banned cars from most of the city.
6 posted on
03/13/2020 6:47:12 AM PDT by
x
To: C19fan
Of more concern is their abysmal poverty, from corrupt politics, police, banking and military...all thanks to the few VERY wealthy, powerful families who run everything.
But, then, that's the story for every country south of our border, for Asia and for Africa.
To: C19fan
8 posted on
03/13/2020 7:01:03 AM PDT by
BipolarBob
(Hi! I'm Joe Biden and I forgot this message.)
To: C19fan
I seem to remember reading at the time Brasilia was being built that “it is a slum, waiting for a city.”
9 posted on
03/13/2020 7:08:00 AM PDT by
Roccus
(Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
To: C19fan
I recall reading Brazilla had wonderful places to work, shop and play but they had no sidewalks to get to them...
11 posted on
03/13/2020 7:35:25 AM PDT by
BBB333
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To: C19fan
Tanzania tried the same concept by moving their Capital to Dodoma, in the center of the country. I spent a week there in 1980 while doing a Quelea (bird - “feathered locust”) helicopter survey for the UN Desert Locust Control organization. The two ornithologists & I stayed with a Yugoslav hydrologist who was “tearing his hair out” trying to find enough water for the new Capital.
That area received a bit over half a meter of rainfall, but open bodies of water experienced two meters of evaporation.
AFAIK, Dodoma never amounted to much and Dar es Salaam remaiins the seat of political and economic power.
14 posted on
03/13/2020 10:50:27 AM PDT by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: C19fan
I’m a fan of modernism and the Bauhaus and mid century design. My aesthetic is clean, simple and functional architecture.
Not to everyone’s taste but it wins me over when it works.
17 posted on
03/13/2020 3:31:34 PM PDT by
goldstategop
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A curious article, if you’re so inclined. This is what happens when a Communist plans and builds a city from scratch.
21 posted on
03/13/2020 10:43:01 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
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