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Brasilia is definitely the kind of alternate future garden city I'm thinking of. I mean, can you imagine walking between buildings at opposite ends of that area

• pharke 12y ago
  Perhaps there is a different term for the type of city you are thinking of, generally cities such as Letchworth[1] are moreso what is known as a garden city. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth
  • bane 12y ago
    Absolutely. The greenbelt defined cities like Letchworth are definitely a different phenomenon. I'm thinking more of cities as gardens.
    • andrewliebchen 12y ago
      Letchworth is a Garden City. Brasilia is a "towers in a park" type Modernist city. You're interested in "towers in a park." Historically, cities like Brasilia were designed around the logic of the car. For example, most roadway intersections feature over and underpasses, cars are completely segregated from pedestrians. By most accounts, it doesn't work so well.
      • bane 12y ago
        There's got to be a better term for it. But yeah, this kind of design doesn't seem to work well no matter the density of the buildings. Cities really need to work around pedestrians.