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I had always assumed that that was just the official story, but that not getting millions of angry rioters over was a key (unspoken) motivation. But it seems I

• IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
  As long as you remain open to change your mind, you’re doing better than almost anybody online. Keep assuming as you please.
• brabel 6y ago
  Brasilia is, today, a large metropolis of nearly 3 million people (the 5th most populous metropolitan area in Brazil). One of the stated motivations to build the city near the geographical center of the country was exactly to get more people to move to that region of Brazil, which was, and still is to some degree, severely underpopulated compared to the coast (and has a great terrain for sustaining large populations). Very large protests are commonplace, so if getting away from angry rioters was in the mind of certain politicians at some point :) it definitely did not work (as others said, the project was planned since 1891, started in the 1920's and only finished in 1960).
• frozenlettuce 6y ago
  You are not wrong, Brasilia has a large population, but the poor regions can't really reach the center of power just by walking (it's an extremely pedestrian-unfriendly city). It also has a flat landscape, unlike Rio that has lots of mountains - which makes this city of city planning much easier.