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Regarding Brazil... but on the other hand, Niemeyer's Brasilia ended up being a place completely pedestrian-unfriendly, full of red dust, and generally speaking
by eitally 12y ago
Regarding Brazil... but on the other hand, Niemeyer's Brasilia ended up being a place completely pedestrian-unfriendly, full of red dust, and generally speaking, not a desirable place to live. Sure, lots of federal employees live there, and take those jobs because they pay well and offer incredible security, but the wealthy who work in Brasilia typically reside in SP or Rio and just fly in to Brasilia Mon-Thurs or similar... including the politicians. They may have succeeded in designing a city that was strategically defensible, but if everyone who matters is mostly in Rio or SP anyway, ....
- speeder 12y agoBut isn't that the point? Make the city unfriendly to masses of pedestrians rushing on your palace to topple you?
- yongjik 12y agoThen the dictator is missing the point. A successful dictator is someone who can manipulate the masses of pedestrians to rush on the palace... to cheer the leader (and to stomp on whatever political enemy the dictator has). A dictator who has to hide from the people is a poor dictator, and the life expectancy of such a regime tend to be short.