Brasilia, the lake Paranoá and toppling: nature and speculation in the modern city / Brasília, o lago Paranoá e o tombamento: natureza e especulação na cidade modernista

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2008

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In 1987, all the whole architectural and urbanistic of Brasilia was declared world heritage site by UNESCO. This fact is directly related to the preservation of specific characteristics of the original plan of Lúcio Costa for Brasilia and with the concern with the modifications that the plan was suffering since the inauguration of the city in 1960. The choice adopted of the documentation of preservation was the spatial structure of Brasilia based in the balance between the four scales urban defined in the Relatório do Plano Piloto. The plan that Lucio Costa competed in the tender to choose the plan for the new capital of Brazil in 1957. Therefore, the balance between the scales: monumental, gregária, residencial e bucólica went the guide to fair the mechanisms for protecting the heritage site of Brasilia. Among these, the scale bucólica, by their specific characteristics, was the most suffer since of the inauguration of the city, there were numerous cases of occupations irregulars the responsible for the differences between the current way of the city and the created by Costa in the years from 1950. The fragility of the area - the Paranoá lake and the bucólica scale - is demonstrated by overlapping of the legal devices to preserve, as much as whether environmental protection or the historical and artistic heritage site of Brasilia. In both cases, such laws are intended to provide one characteristic existent in the original proposal, the character of a public orla, for the leisure activities. This character has how biggest obstacle the subsequent privatization of public areas since the inauguration of the city in 1960. Facing this, the present dissertation intends to discuss the legislation that of the area of Paranoá lake, this legislation maybe about the environmental laws or laws of the preservation of the Pilot Plan - Bucólica scale. The objective of this dissertation is to understand how this legal device can work or not for the public ownership of the area, this research provides an overview of the presence of the lake throughout the history. This overview intends to review the presence of the lake since the first ideas of the change of the capital, its transformations over the time and finally the possibilities and impossibilities that the legal devices have of the fair of the orla of the Paranoá lake one place in fact public, turned to leisure activities and accessible to all inhabitants of Brasilia.

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brasília brazilian modernization brasilia modern city modernização brasileira cidade moderna

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