Brasília, plan and reality : A study of planned and spontaneous urban development

Dublin Core

This book is a considerably revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I wanted it to deal with ongoing social trends instead of the merely exotic or the archaic, so often pursued by anthropologists... Brasília seemed a good place for me to undertake research along these lines... I was struck both by the "feel" of Brasília, quite different from other regions of Brazil I had experienced, and by the contrast between the "planned" area of apartment houses and the squatter settlements and satellite towns - almost a caricature of the social structure of Brazil as a whole. The dramatic experiment of a planned city and its unanticipated results seemed a natural topic for more detailed investigation.