Cidade dos Motores, Brazil, South America
Year 1945 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Brazilian Airplane factory Commission Nationality initiator(s) None Designer(s) / Architect(s) Josep Lluís Sert Paul Schulz Paul Lester Design organization Town Planning Associates Inhabitants Target population 25,000 Town website Town related links http://www.bcn.es/publicacions/bmm/50/ang_01.htm http://books.google.nl/books?id=C4uNElGkBoYC&pg=PA144&dq=%22Brazilian+Airpl ane+factory+Commission%22#v=onepage&q=%22Brazilian%20Airplane%20factory%20C ommission%22&f=false Literature 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
Plan of Town Planning Associates, commissioned by the Brazilian Airplane factory Commission, for a new town centred around an airplane engine factory. A town for a population of 25.000 inhabitants on an undeveloped site on the Rio-Petropolis Highway, twenty-five miles from Rio de Janeiro. The scheme was based on zoning in terms of the CIAM 'four functions' and the use of widely spaced housing slabs set in greenery, organized into 'neighbourhood units' and linked by highways. Sert expanded these principles tot five when he introduced the civic centre, the core for this new town. source: Marie Bruun Yde
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