On April 21, 1960, President Juscelino Kubitschek mandated that the capital of Brazil be moved from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to populate the interior of the nation and build a more accessible capital city. In the late 1950s, master planner Liicio Costa worked with the federal government to design a master planned city that today planners herald as a model city. Similarly, French architect Alfred Agache was commissioned to design the city of Curitiba as a planned urban center for the southern tier of Brazil. During the postwar twentieth century, these cities stood out as international examples of contemporary urban planning, and they have represented urbanism in Brazil (Skidmore 2010).
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