New capital cities in the Global South: Postmodernist context, modernist layout in Africa and Brazil
This paper contextualizes Abuja’s planning history (Nigeria, 1979- 1981) and Palmas (Brazil, 1989), considering networks of knowledge, travelling ideas, and the planners’ tool-kit. It analyses these new capital cities’ layouts through a more global reading of planning history. It argues that their p...
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Format: | article |
Language: | eng |
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2021
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22850 |
Country: | Portugal |
Oai: | oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/22850 |