- These areas were not planned as permanent settlements and thus offer stark contrasts to the symmetry and spacing of Brasília.
- Brasilia is a planned city and thus, the infrastructure is world class. Rail, road and air networks connect Brasilia to all other major cities of the world.
- Brasília, conceived as a workable, utopic answer to urban chaos, replaced Rio as capital in 1960 and remains an impressive monument to national initiative.
- Brasilia, A Realized Utopia.
- Brasilia is not only a planned city. ... Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was inaugurated on April 22nd 1960, in the central area of the country.
- In 1987, Brasília was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its modernist architecture that is unusual to any other world's architecture.
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- The city is a major airport hub for all of Brazil, and the main airport of Brasília is the Brasília International Airport (BSB).
- The sky in Brasilia, forever blue and with a 360-degree horizon, summons big dreams. The city itself was born from a dream – the idea of a capital in central...
- As the world's first capital city conceived by modern standards of urban planning, Brasília is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.