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In the 60s, that was a modern masterpiece. Can't blame Niemeyer for living in a time where cars and roads were a priority.

• fcanesin 10y ago
  It is and always was the reflect of a dysfunctional view of society. One fit for the military dictatorships of its time. One with no concern for mass transport, housing and entertainment (even as the 60s where when metro started in Rio and São Paulo). It is where by design one would live the closest to the artificial lakes and best public infrastructure according to the position it has on the State administration. With no place though for the supporting people, who ended living in rings of poverty around the designed opulence. Going on-and-of during hours everyday to serve the rich bureaucrats they support. Having been there sometimes, it is disgusting.
• ucaetano 10y ago
  Actually, you can, Niemeyer and Co. (Corbusier, Moses, etc.) were responsible for this prioritization. There was the silly dream that people should adjust to city planning, and not the other way around. Lucky, modernist city planning died out in most of the world. One only needs to walk through Brasilia or the suburbs of Paris to see the abomination that it became: "...the car would abolish the human street, and possibly the human foot. Some people would have aeroplanes too. The one thing no one would have is a place to bump into each other, walk the dog, strut, one of the hundred random things that people do ... being random was loathed by Le Corbusier ... its inhabitants surrender their freedom of movement to the omnipresent architect."