Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Brasilia: Modernist disaster or deceptively brilliant?" video.

  1. 3:50 figure and ground The reason Brasilia and other planned capitals have more "ground" is the same reason Baron Haussmann opened wide straight avenues in Paris. It creates open fields of fire for troops to keep protesters at bay. These open planned cities were never meant to welcome protests. They are designed to contain them, let them blow by, and if need be, disperse them. At the same time, denying shelter, concealment and escape routes to the masses The "wings-fuselage" split between residential and government offices is to make easier to enforce curfews. There is no excuse, you do NOT live here. There is planning and reason to place the presidential palace, the supreme court and the congress in a small peninsula. Surrounded by water on three sides, and the access to the "highway" a clean straight field of fire. Go see the Battle for the Reichstag for a similar set up. Governments do not make things with humans in mind. They only do things to hold on to power.
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