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Clickbaity title, but it compares Chandigarh with other well-designed cities such as Brasilia, Milton Keynes and Palmanova.
by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Clickbaity title, but it compares Chandigarh with other well-designed cities such as Brasilia, Milton Keynes and Palmanova.
- a3n 11y agoIs Brasilia well designed? Nice buildings and layout (all I know about it is reading here and there). But as the article points out, its working class live in shanties ringing the city. Perhaps that's the norm in Brasil, I don't know. Perhaps that was even expected by the designers. But I think there are problems when workers can't live in the city they work in, either because there is no affordable housing where they work or no work where they live.
- jinushaun 11y agoNever been, but I've always heard Brasilia brought up as an example of why planned cities typically suck. Looks good from the sky or as a tiny architecture model, but awful on the ground. The common complaint is that it's designed for cars and has horrible walkability.