Salvador (São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos), Brazil, South America
Year 1549 latitude: -12° 58' longitude: -38° 28' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Portuguese Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 2,676,606 (2009) Target population Town website Town related links Literature - Godfrey, Brain J.; Modernizing the Brazilian City; 1991 In: The geograhpical review type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Salvador, Bahia, founded in 1549 as the colonial capital, became the most important early Portuguese settlement. It reached a population of 100,000 by 1700, when it was the second largest city in the entire Portuguese empire. The lower city, cidade baixa, by the harbor contained the principal market and customs house. The heavily fortified upper city, cidade alta, held the main governmental and religious buildings as well as the bulk of residences. Other Brazilian coastal settlements replicated this pattern of upper and lower quarters, typical of Portuguese and many Mediterranean cities. source: Godfrey, Brain J.; Modernizing the Brazilian City; 1991 In: The geograhpical review
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