Palmas, Brazil, South America
Year 1990 latitude: -10° 11' longitude: -48° 20' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization state of Tocantins Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Luis Fernando Cruvinel Teixeira Walfredo de Oliveira Filho Design organization Inhabitants 208,165 (2005) Target population Town website http://www.palmas.to.gov.br/portal/index/ Town related links Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
The revision of the Brazilian constitution in 1988 resulted in the creation of the new state of Tocaltins in the centre of Brazil. The city of Palmas was in created in 1990 to form the future capital of the state and to replace the temporaly state capital Miracema. The architects of the city, Luiz Fernando Cruvinel Teixeira and Walfredo de Oliveira Filho took the zoning of the federal capital Brasilia as an example for the new state capital. This resulted in a city that is made out of sectors that are seperated by parks and connected by a well designed roadsystem. source: Ellen van Holstein 8-3-2011
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