Comments on: Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge

By: Paulo Gustavo

Paulo Gustavo — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:50:42 +0000

In fact, TERESINA (capital of State of Piaui) was the first planned city in Brazil (earlier than the well-known planned capital city of Brasília, founded in 1960, and Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, founded in 1897). It was founded in 16th August 1852 by Conselheiro Saraiva. But I think even Brazilians don’t know this fact… Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresina

By: Flavio R. Cavalcanti

Flavio R. Cavalcanti — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:33:36 +0000

Yes, it’s Brasilia! (write with “S”)

http://www.brazilia.jor.br/Vias/ligaPonte3.htm

http://www.brazilia.jor.br/Vias/ligaPonte3a.htm

http://www.brazilia.jor.br/Vias/ligaPonte3b.htm

http://www.brazilia.jor.br/Vias/ligaPonte3c.htm

“brazilia” with “Z” is wrong….

By: SÃ©rgio

SÃ©rgio — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:05:27 +0000

Sorry Fabricio. But GoiÃ¢nia was in fact planned and reurbanned years after that. The former capital of state was â€œGoiÃ¡s Cityâ€?, and GoiÃ¢nia was built to be the new capital of GoiÃ¡s State. In effect, the city grew a lot and the planned was not respected. In BrasÃla, same in the present the original plan has to be respected.

It was in 1823 (just one year after the independence of Brazil) the fist idea of transferring Brazilian capital from Rio de Janeiro to a central area, but just on the next century the project of build was started.

Beyond BrasÃlia, Belo Horizonte and GoiÃ¢nia, there is another artificial capital city in Brazil: Palmas (capital of Tocantins State) which was built in 1990.

By: Fabricio

Fabricio — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:58:19 +0000

Goiania was not built before its ocupation. Goias and its capitol can be found in really earlier brazilian history, when Goias still was part of a grand Mato Grosso State. What happens is that Goiania had a reurbaned planning, of really huge amount, like happened with brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, capitol of the state of Minas Gerais.

Brasilia is internationally known as the biggest project of that kind in the world history. Oscar Niemeyer, of course that not alone, draw almost the entirely First Plane of that city.

It is said that brazilians attempts to enter modernity in the begining of 20th century were strongly influenced by the positivism, wich defends a conscient and before-planned construction of the society. Since the 1910s, talks about transfering brazilian capitol from Rio de Janeiro to the interior central area took place at brazilian geopolitic thought. And in 1950 it started to be done.

By: DIEGO

DIEGO — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:24:52 +0000

i LIVE IN BRASILIA, IS WITH S!

By: CauÃª

CauÃª — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:34:04 +0000

My city is he best of the world… i live in rio de janeiro since i was born… for is the most beautilful city… the problems is the violency =/

By: Gisela

Gisela — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:22:29 +0000

Are you sure Goiania was made before people moved in there? I donÂ´t think so… itÂ´s not completely planed like Brasilia…

JK Bridge looks nice.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:49:51 +0000

About Bruno’s comment that Brasilia is the only city that was build before people begin to live there, that’s not true, there’s another city also in Brasil and very close to Brasilia called GoiÃ¢nia, the capital of the State of GoiÃ¡s, it was also completely planned before people begin to live there, but unfortunately Google hasn’t got the full-zoom image yet of this city.

By: Bruno Lima

Bruno Lima — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:46:06 +0000

Another interesting urban planning trivia fact is that Brasilia was originally designed in a way that there would be no intersections w/ traffic lights, if you zoom in closer in the residential areas in the “airplane” shaped sectors of the city, you’ll see a lot of roundabouts, merging lanes and overpasses… the city’s growth has proved this orginal idea to be unfeasible, and traffic lights are now found in many areas.