Brasilia (Brazil)

The founder of this city was a future man sight (Juscelino Kubitschek), why? Well this is, at least to me one of the modern wonders of our days in arquitecture and beauty, the city is so well design that when you approach by plane it seems that you are going to land on a plane. The city if divided as sections, south wing and north wing , tail .... like a airplane, they are also organized as resident zones, church zones, political zone, hospital zones. A beauty organized with 1 huge lake on each site of the town...south lake and north lake, for kite surfers like me this city is perfect for a internal country, the lake is excellent for water sports, is clean and have big ...  Read the complete review

Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was build on a gigantic scale. The goal was to create a modern city constructed as an architectural monument and masterpiece for 'a country of the future' as national commentators often claimed Brazil to be. The plan of the city was eventually designed in the shape of a bird or a plane in flight following the tradition of architectural modernism. This was a design - the 'Pilot Plan' by Lúcio Costa who won a competition between architects and urban planners. The ideal maximum population target was originally for 500,000 residents. However, many of the thousands of workers that came to build the city ended up staying and this, ...  Read the complete review

I was born up and brought up in Brasilia, and Brasilia is certainly a prime example of a place of rural urban migration - which in a way is very sad. Until I was seven, my parents worked on a famn as subsistence farmers in the Amozan rainforest. They decided to move because there were many good things about the big cities as we had droughts and no crop in the country. So my family (which is very very big) moved to a Favala (known as a shanty town in England) for the oppotunities. I moved away when I was eleven to England. Brasilia is seen as a beautiful country for many, but for others is the unseen world of a fevela child, otherwise known as a KARAT. ...  Read the complete review