Slide Title

Brasilia: Commercial Street, Local Shopping

Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

5-1974

Description

Brasilia is a planned city that has been both criticized as a failed utopia acclaimed as a masterpiece of modernist architecture. The city is mapped out into sections forming the shape of a bird or airplane. This photograph is taken in one of Brasilia’s local commerce sectors in the ‘wings’ of the city.

RIAMCO Link

Finding Aid on RIAMCO to Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications

Notes

http://wikitravel.org/en/Bras%C3%ADlia#b

Rights

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Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Subject Headings

Urban economics; Cities and Towns -- Federal District -- Brasilia;

Country Name

Brazil

Region Name

Federal District

City Name

Brasilia

Recommended Citation

Smolski, Chet, "Brasilia: Commercial Street, Local Shopping" (1974). Browse All. 482.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/482