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Shaping an urban Amazonia: ‘a planner’s nightmare’

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This paper discusses the massive colonization plan and settlement scheme implemented in the early 1970s by the Brazilian government as part of the development of the Amazonian territory, and accounts for some of the reasons for its failure. Building on the notion that the Amazonian settlement scheme had taken a mid-twentieth-century private-colonization enterprise in northern-Paraná state as a planning model, this paper reveals that they were both grounded in garden-city repertoire; particularly the ideas of decentralization, satellite towns, and the marriage of town and country. However, unlike its model, the Amazonian settlement scheme failed badly. The adaptations made to the model and the innovations of the new scheme will also be identified.

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  • Renato Leão Rego, 2017. "Shaping an urban Amazonia: ‘a planner’s nightmare’," Planning Perspectives, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(2), pages 249-270, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rppexx:v:32:y:2017:i:2:p:249-270
    DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2016.1277952
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