Brasília, Brazil, South America
Year 1957 latitude: -15° 46' longitude: -47° 57' Period Initiator(s) Juscelino Kubitschek Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Lucio Costa Oscar Niemeyer Roberto Burle Marx Design organization Inhabitants 1,969,000 (2007) Target population Town website http://www.brasilia.df.gov.br/ Town related links http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3416/ http://www.mre.gov.br/cdbrasil/itamaraty/web/ingles/artecult/arqurb/urbanis m/apresent.htm Literature - 'Brazilië, laboratorium van stedebouw en architectuur. Impressie van de vijfde NIROV/Urban Fabric-studiereis naar Brazilië', Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Ordening nr.1, 2000, pp43-51 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