- 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.
- 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.
- As the world's first capital city conceived by modern standards of urban planning, Brasília is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- Brasília is a city built from scratch in 1956, in a clearing in the Amazon Rainforest, built specifically to be the country’s capital.
- Brasilia, A Realized Utopia.
- 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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- Getting a grasp of Brasilia's addresses may be a little perplexing at first, as they are usually shortened to acronyms. Here are some useful tips