The modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília
The utopian design and organization of Brasília - the modernist new capital of Brazil - were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, the author analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, the author presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city. [publisher]
Print Book, English, 1989
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989