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Brazil's capital, inaugurated on 21 April 1960, laid out by Lúcio Costa with buildings by Oscar Niemeyer, and the twentieth century's most complete test of designing a city whole.
-15.8, -47.9 · approximate · construction 1956–1960; inaugurated 21 April 1960
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- affects Urban housing supply — The Plano Piloto made no provision for the workers who built it, and the satellite towns are where that shortfall settled.
- is comparable to of Canberra — Both are competition-planned federal capitals of the same century with markedly different occupation outcomes.
- is comparable to of Songdo — Both were designed whole and both were occupied differently from the way they were drawn.
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