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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Main Author: Rego, Renato Leão (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22850
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/22850