Brasília is inaugurated
Brazil's new capital was inaugurated after roughly four years of construction. The Plano Piloto was dimensioned for a population far smaller than the Federal District would reach, and the workers who built it were already living in settlements the plan did not provide for — the origin of the satellite towns that hold most of the metropolitan population today.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Brasília · city · Brazil
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
The evolution of Brasília's spatial structure, 1975–2015, and studies of the satellite towns
Supports the statement that most of the Federal District's population lives outside the Plano Piloto in satellite towns, that household incomes in the Plano Piloto are many times those in Ceilândia, and that commuting burdens fall disproportionately on the poorest decile. V55 verification basis: retrieved from paper abstracts and summaries; neither paper was opened, and no single income ratio is asserted as exact.
Elsevier; Project MUSE · 2024 · Partly verified
"The evolution of Brasília spatial structure from 1975 to 2015" (Elsevier / ANPEC working version, 2024); "'Capitality' beyond the Capital City? Brasília and Its Satellite Towns", Project MUSE