Modernist Civic Space and the Case of Brasília

Williams, Richard J.

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“…Indeed, the modernist capital designed under the egalitarian inspiration of Lucio Costa and oscar Niemeyer would subsequently come to represent an authoritarian and inflexible urbanism that proves so alienating to most of its own residents (Williams, 2005). These contradictions continue to haunt Brazilian society and the achievements of national development policies to this day, which only reinforce the relevance of excavating the origin and the legacy of national-developmentalism.…”

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Assessing development and the idea of development in the 1950s in Brazil

Ioris

2013

Rev. Econ. Polit.

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The decade of 1950s was a crucial period of the industrialization of the Brazilian economy. The dominant school of thought was the national-developmentalism, which was not restricted to the sphere of economic production but also encompassed political and socio-cultural processes of change. Combining repression, persuasion and paternalism, the national state took a significantly political and economic responsibility in the social, material and symbolic modernization during the Vargas and Kubitschek administrations. However, internal disputes, foreign demands and a long legacy of socio-spatial inequalities prevented the achievement of more socially inclusive goals, leading a legacy of unanswered questions that still have currency today.

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Assessing development and the idea of development in the 1950s in Brazil

Ioris

2013

Rev. Econ. Polit.

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“…De literatuur over modernistische architectuur en stedenbouw, evenals de sociaalwetenschappelijke kritieken erop, richten zich vooral op de fysieke ruimte van de wijken, de architectonische en stedenbouwkundige concepties die eraan ten grondslag liggen en de (vaak veronderstelde, soms empirisch aangetoonde) effecten op menselijk gedrag en perceptie. Deze kritieken zijn bovendien veelal geformuleerd vanuit het elitaire standpunt van 'experts' en buitenstaanders: architecten, cineasten, journalisten, wetenschappers en romanciers (Williams 2005).…”

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Harde stad, zachte stad

Reinders

2016

Architecture and the Built Environment

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There is something irrevocable in architecture. In contrast with a painting or a musical play, one cannot alter an architectural work of art other than by blowing it up or pulling it down. Streets, buildings, squares and parks are part of the hard, physical environment in which we organize our lives. But why conceptualize architecture as a finished product? What happens when the plans have been drawn, the buildings completed, the public space decorated and the pictures taken for design journals and marketing advertisements? How does the ‘hard’ city of architecture and urban planning relate to the ‘soft’ city of residents and users? How do people appropriate the planned city and make it their home? The thesis ‘Hard city, soft city’ is an anthropological study on the role of images and symbolic representations in the social production of urban space in Nieuwland, a post-war neighborhood of Schiedam, which is undergoing a process of large-scale restructuring. A central theme of the book is the intersection between planned and lived space. That is, between the city as object of planning and policy and as an object of everyday identity formation. The architecture and urban structure of post-war neighborhoods have been subject of numerous publications, but it is striking how little we know about everyday life that has unfolded in the years after completion. The book sets out to approach urban space not only from a physical and architectural point of view, but also as a social and cultural domain which is claimed by various groups and institutions. This is examined through the images, symbols and stories used by professionals and residents to give form, meaning and substance to urban space, such as in branding and narrative cartography. Using the philosophical work of Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre, the book examines how an anthropology of urban space contributes to our knowledge on the city, as a political object of policy, architecture and planning and as an everyday living environment.

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“…As Mariusz Czepczyriski noted: "One of the main fundaments of socialist architecture was the will to change society by or through, architecture, design and cultural landscape" (2008,63). Although differing in core beliefs, the motivations and assumptions animating socialist urbanism were not terribly dissimilar from those driving the creation of new urban spaces in non-democratic contexts like Nazi Nuremberg or Fascist Rome (Hagen and Ostergren 2014;Kirk 2006), democratic contexts like Washington D.C. or post-Cold War Berlin (Butler 2007;Molnar 2010), colonial contexts like French Fez or British New Delhi (Holden 2006;Johnson 2010), and postcolonial contexts like Lagos or Brasilia (Immerwahr 2007;Williams 2005).…”

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From socialist to post-socialist cities: Narrating the nation through urban space

Diener¹,

Hagen

2013

Natl. pap.

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The development of post-socialist cities has emerged as a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences. Originally constructed under the dictates of central planners and designed to serve the demands of command economies, post-socialist urban centers currently develop at the nexus of varied and often competing economic, cultural, and political forces. Among these, nationalist aspirations, previously simmering beneath the official rhetoric of communist fraternity and veneer of architectural conformity, have emerged as dominant factors shaping the urban landscape. This article examines patterns, processes, and practices concerning the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning, and identity in the post-socialist city. In addition to assessing the main contours of this burgeoning field of research, this article highlights how this special issue of Nationalities Papers contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary cultural and political change in post-socialist urban settings.

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Modernist Civic Space and the Case of Brasília

Cited by 21 publications

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Assessing development and the idea of development in the 1950s in Brazil

Assessing development and the idea of development in the 1950s in Brazil

Harde stad, zachte stad

From socialist to post-socialist cities: Narrating the nation through urban space

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