Brasilia: The Capital City Built from Nothing in Three Short Years

[@Sideprojects]

Is this a megaproject? Yes. Should it be on the Megaprojects channel? Probably. But Sideprojects is also about the length and style of the video. It's not the 20 minute deep dive that MP is, but a quicker look at things :).

[@megaprojects9649]

I totally agree.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

You know it!

[@geographicstravel]

Erm, am I NOTHING to you?

[@ToptenzNettop10]

VIDEO IDEA: Top 10 Cities Made from Scratch.

[@Biographics]

Do a Biographics on Simon!

[@thormaster06]

I don't know chief, this looks like a Megaproject to me...

[@neilgoodman2885]

Maybe, I am happy he did it because opens up the conversation/debate on so many levels, internationally and there at home for the Brazilians. I'll post above. Best to you.

[@wlbrfernandes]

Built a plane? - Megaprojects Built a car? - Megaprojects Built an entire Moda F-ing city? Sideproject at best

[@thomazmareli]

An entire city in the middle of nowhere in a region that is like an fucking desert in just 3 years

[@ruan9609]

Hahahaha

[@shumy26]

@@thomazmareli it's more like a Savanna, but yeah haha

[@shumy26]

@@Thelaretus oh yeah I know, I live on Brasilia I was just pointing out that climate of the Cerrado matches a savanna more closely than it does to a desert, but I wasn't contesting the building was hard to manage

[@gustavodutra2817]

Ugly communist architecture

[@DJL78]

Oscar Niemeyer’s masterpiece. I visited Brasília a few years ago. It’s absolutely stunning. A must see for fans of architecture.

[@francescosirotti8178]

* modern * architecture. Huge, blocky and deeply inhumane. I'll pass.

[@annescholey6546]

And Eero Saariinen

[@DJL78]

@@annescholey6546 I also enjoy the work of Saarinen but he had nothing to do with Brasilia. The Saarinen designed JFK terminal is now the TWA Hotel. The modernist details are fantastic. It’s the only reasons to stay a night in Queens.

[@ChristophersMum]

@@francescosirotti8178 It was a project of it's time...perhaps not to everybody's taste...but it has at least given the people who live there an open free outlook...could do with more parks and trees to ''soften'' the look.

[@wanderer10k]

Terrible for pedestrians though. Still, glad I visited, very interesting.

[@viniciusramos5617]

You guys really didn't mention that Brasilia is shaped like an airplane. Kinda disappointed.

[@gutobernardo7457]

That alone qualifies as a Mega Project hahaha

[@fs10inator]

Even better, there's an airplane named "Brasilia"; the EMB 120.

[@CB0408]

I see a Menorah

[@sghasas]

@@CB0408 It's about how it's seen from space. Search "Plano Piloto" on google images

[@CB0408]

@@sghasas I still see a menorah

[@janejovanov]

I visited Brasilia last year, just before this madness of 2020. Amazing city. I love it so much! Brasil in general is amazing! Even with all of its problems - Brasil is majestic in so many ways. Hope to visit again soon.

[@SosiphePoswa]

How would you describe the informal economy of Brasilia?

[@carlosandino821]

Greetings! I am a resident of Brasília, more precisely one of the satellites called Ceilândia (understand that the satellite cities here would be like conglomerates of neighborhoods separated from the center, but dependent on this center in a certain way). The problem with the Kubitscheck project is that it did not notice the immense popularity of the project and that it attracted hundreds of thousands of people, and this continued even after the death of the project, since the excess of people has a lot to do with populist policies that made the city swell, to the point of becoming the 11th most populous city in the Americas, and this has serious consequences for public services and, especially, for transportation. But thanks for explaining about the city I live in, I'm tired of having to explain that I don't live in Rio de Janeiro!

[@RAS_Squints]

When a MIG 29 is considered a Megaproject and building a city is considered a Sideproject 😄

[@Sledgeace]

Especially a capital city

[@giovannirodriguesdasilva646]

as brazilian is mixed feelings, the designer of Brasilia himself was disappointed with what the city has become

[@joshuaradick5679]

I think we should all be aware by now that Simon really likes airplanes, and clearly wants to talk about them more. I’m pretty sure that this channel is going to be ideas that he had for potential Megaprojects videos that he didn’t find interesting to talk about for 20+ min

[@giovannirodriguesdasilva646]

@@joshuaradick5679 The Brasilia plant is in the shape of an airplane

[@Data-sk9ev]

Substitute mega with awesome, and that is how Simon chooses what to do videos about

[@robertovalverdemora9112]

In New York City there is a building of Oscar Niemeyer, guess what it's. The Plenarium of the see of the United Nations.

[@dr.adolphusraddler1161]

You forgot to mention that Brasilia was designed to look like an aeroplane from the sky!

[@WandreGG]

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That is actually not true. It looks like one and the "Plano Piloto" (Pilot Plan) looks like one. But it wasn't supposed to look like one - Costa himself said so. It was supposed to look like a crux. That curvature was to adequate the plans to the terrain. He said, in a interview, that he thought it was more like a butterfly than a plane - rejecting the plane idea.

[@joaopedrodantas2147]

The plane shape make sense because the city was created also for national pride and identity, so what is more pride for us Brazilians than being the nation who invented the airplane like tribute to Santos Dummont @

[@Gi-Orion]

Hey as a person born and raised in Brasília I have a few curiosities to bring, simon this is a megaproject please do your research 1 Lucio actually didn't want to win the contest, he was pressure to submit something and just made a sketch of an bird 2 National rock was basically born here 3 Oscar actually planned for the lower class to live in the city, the 400's squares have smallers apartments than the 200's, 100's and 300's which all have three bedrooms apartments or more. But the city where planned for few people and they didn't account for all the imigrants. 4 they made an artificial lake, thinking about entertainment for the citizens 5 Plano piloto, is how this part of Brasília is called, today all of the federal district can be considered Brasília. The city organization is based on the cartesian plane, all the places are called by the position on the plane using North, South, East and West as reference. So a residential square on the north wing (Asa Norte) and on the west side of what would be the X axis is identified as "SQN 301" (SQ means that it is a residential block, N means north of the "Y" axis, and the odd hundreds (100, 300, 500) means west of X)

[@gabrielfireman5057]

I actually live in Brasília, born and raised. Just some side notes: 1 - Brasília is a great city to live in. 2 - Our nightlife exists, and it's pretty darn good. 3 - We have lots of museums, art, music and culture. 4 - The architecture makes this city into a living work of art, and just like a painting or a sculpture, you may not like the style, but Brasília is definitely something to see. 5 - The satellite cities are NOTHING like shanty towns, of course there are significant poorer areas, but it's nothing like what you put on the video, it was a really not a good comparison.

[@gabrielfireman5057]

@Gery A The one unesco declared as a world heritage, and I actually study architecture, you have no idea what you're talking about lol

[@hp2202]

Vida noturna de BSB é boa mesmo, por isso os jovens daí vem tanto pra Goiânia

[@gabrielfireman5057]

@@hp2202 Ah depende do evento também, muita gente de Goiânia vem pra cá.

[@hp2202]

@@gabrielfireman5057 Eu considero que o a Noite Brasiliense melhorou muito nos últimos 5 anos. Começaram a ter mais eventos e tal. Agora 10 anos atrás, não tinha quase nada. Geral ia pra Goiânia.

[@WoodOcean38]

One of the satellite cities is Park Way. Huge houses in 2500m² lots lmao

[@JaquelineGomesdeJesus]

I live in Rio de Janeiro, but Brasília is my home town. I am really proud of it. Only those who doesn't know its history and purposes can, unfortunately, deceive or deny its greatness, as a whole modern city built from nothing in 3 years, by men and women like my grandfather and grandmother, an achievement we keep turning real until today. A capital of hope alone wouldn't change a country, but Brasília portrays the dreams and real work from our ancestors, we try to honor them. May Brazil's capital city be more known and its people's value recognized!

[@CristianMiranda-kl5lw]

I live here in Brasília after living abroad for a long time and love it!!

[@ErikMoroni]

Cool video! I'd argue that Brasilia isn't particularly a dead, government restricted city, though. Having lived there myself. There's quite a lot to do and it's very pretty. Also São Paulo is not a coastal city. Close, but it's not exactly on the coast.

[@tomceslonce]

The point is that this guy always talks about things as if everything he says is true and a lot of the times his facts are bad and opinions are superficial.

[@skyless_moon]

I've lived there for 10 years and yes, it's a dead, government restricted city as far as I can tell.

[@brett4264]

This was more of a "Megaproject" than the President's car was - by far.

[@anarchyantz1564]

Well he loves American stuff more obviously.

[@alanhelton]

I couldn’t be in more agreement, however, it is a HUGE chore to get ORANGE MAN BAD into anything but a Taft outfit. Very Tweed of him.

[@Smart-Sports]

This should be on Megaprojects and the presidents car should've been on sideprojects

[@egauci1]

Does it really matter?

[@ekowstevens4054]

Yes I agree.

[@MatheusSouza-li4jf]

I'm brazilian and I have lived in Brasília for 18 years. I can say that this is the best description of Brasília by a foreigner that I've ever seen. Of course, more could have been said, but all that was said is correct. Really liked it

[@marinarebelo3416]

Hi, I am an architect and urban planner born in Brasilia and still live here... We don't say 'satellite cities' anymore because its pejorative, nowadays everyone of those cities are like neighborhoods.

[@Brasilmagic79]

How old is this? Brasilia has a great nightlife, thousands of restaurants and tons of shopping malls. It’s a great city with wide streets , no traffic jams and many modern new buildings. Ah, and basically cashless. I love it and it has a great quality of life. October, 2021.

[@Aeroman66]

There were two extra reasons for Brasilia: - On the military point of view, in a time when ICBMs didn't exist, it is better to have a capital in the middle of the continent, for best protection. - Moving the politicians far away from the people...

[@mattpotter8725]

I think as will as being a vanity project, which it obviously was for Kubischek, and moving the capital away from Rio, I think it was built with an idea of developing the interior of the country more and it being a hub between the southern and northern cities in Brazil. The airport in Brasilia certainly does act as a hub, to get to anywhere from the south to the north you end up changing planes there, from my experience!!!

[@ottovio]

I´m watching this from Brasília, noice!

[@BASK3R]

Sadly me too

[@JoaoVictor-nl5gp]

Lol same

[@ianr]

While in Brazil you could cover the building of Christ the Redeemer statue, either Mega or Side project.

[@BBulletin]

I second that idea.

[@davynhainstock7503]

3rd

[@danielmu22]

Megaproject in Brazil, i could mention ITAIPU Damn

[@JORDAN77777777777]

I'm sorry if this sounds rude; but this looks like it belongs more on megaprojects.

[@danielmorum4900]

@@The_Real_H What????? There is a lot of things he didn't say about Brasília, that video was supposed to be in megaprojects but they just don't accept that brazilian people can do monumental things

[@brunokopper100]

H for foreigners, indeed! But we can talk about the present modern aesthetic (from 40-50s), super-blocks (series of blocks which holds several services), we can talk about the pirotis (forgot the name, but is a type of building which doesn’t touch the base on the ground and create a space used as “living area), we have unique buildings such as: National Museum, The Parliament, Alvorada Palace and etc. But you’ll need to come here and read a lot! I understand that there isn’t much too say when you’re a foreigner that recently heard about the city. :)

[@gabrieleduardo504]

@@brunokopper100, acho que o correto é pilotis.

[@sogil8078]

My grandfather was one of the architects in Lucio Costa teams...He lived there for 3 years... Had some really cool stories!

[@newname4785]

Wait, how was this not a megaproject?

[@NateJ1]

Apparently Rome can’t be built in a day but a capitol of a major country pretty much can be

[@MelniaShadow]

Because it is a Side Project

[@ChadWilson]

There is low law with Whiteclaw! Someone must have switched out Simon's whiskey with Whiteclaw.

[@recoilpaintball]

Probably should have been, but a presidential car took its spot in the Megaprojects line.

[@kjsdpgijn]

I get why they'd put it here, mainly just to get more videos on it for now

[@zevitor]

Sao Paulo is not a costal city! It’s 60-90km from the sea.

[@MyKeeP81]

close enough. you can easily take a day trip to the beach

[@ivanpetro8464]

@@MyKeeP81 You are right, a lot of people do day trips to the beach. I lived in São Paulo for 12 years.

[@leorusso2480]

@@MyKeeP81 It ain’t that easy. The road isn’t straight, it’s a 700m mountain with heavy traffic

[@PureAlbania]

Also it is not written correctly. Sao Paolo?!?

[@ruan9609]

@@MyKeeP81 OK, but it's not a coastal city!

[@cuppiesaur]

SO happy and fun to see a lot of fellow Brazilians here *-*♥ (I'm also from Brasilia ♥)

[@JackBWatkins]

I remember learning it was the capital, but I never knew it was built after I was born. We should teach more about the rest if the America’s in school.

[@colormedubious4747]

We learned about Brasilia in middle school social studies in the early 1970s in Virginia.

[@JL-sm6cg]

I didn't know it was as young as it is until I read about it on Wikipedia.

[@reginaldocalado5544]

This video is amazing, I’m from Brasília and I love when we architecture is recognized for people from another countries 🇧🇷

[@siggy6044]

The president's car is a megaproject, but this entire city is a side project? I love your content Simon but what 😅

[@didacvs]

This is so unnacurate, oh god. 1- São Paulo is not a costal city, it sits arround 50km from the sea and 700m of altitude 2- Brazil's government was not formed in 1889, we had been independent from Portugal since 1822 and been a monarchy for arround 60 years 3-Oscar Niemeyer was not the architect behind non public buildings, he projected almost all buildings including the presidents house, office, the national congress, the supreme court, the ministeries etc etc. Burle Marx meanwhile made the landscape design

[@pedromendesrbd]

Please be aware that Álvares is not spelled like in Spanish. Great video. Brasília is a beautiful place, unlike any other.

[@macuss87]

This channel has exploded out of the gates. Great work Simon, and team!

[@lordgarion514]

It's ironic that the home of one of the slowest things on the planet, government bureaucracy, was built in record time.

[@GazilionPT]

It's "São Paulo", not "Sao Paolo" (I can understand your inability to write "ã", but changing "Paulo" to Italian "Paolo" is unjustified. It's also "Álvares", not "Álvarez". He was Portuguese, not Spanish.

[@emersonlima9725]

As pessoas não são obrigadas a adivinhar a pronúncia exatamente certa das palavras em outros idiomas. Que chato e mimizento vc é

[@GazilionPT]

@@emersonlima9725 Não é uma questão de pronúncia. Ele ESCREVEU "Sao Paolo" e "Álvarez". Percebo que tenha má pronúncia por não falar a língua (por ex., não mencionei a má pronúncia de "Rio de Janeiro", porque estava bem escrito). Outra coisa é escrever mal uma coisa que é só copiar e colar da Wikipédia...

[@danieldias6175]

@@emersonlima9725 Mimizento é você que não aceita o cara falar o jeito certo de escrever.

[@criticalhard]

THIS, i see nordics always get their names respected but we don't, this applies to spanish and portuguese like wtf...

[@lucasherissontrindade9888]

@@emersonlima9725 mas ele está certo, é Sao PaUlo no Paolo

[@lumer2b]

Misspelled São Paulo? Check Called it a coastal city? Check Mispronounced José as if it were a Spanish name? Check That’s all in the first 1:30 of the video. We’re off to a great start.

[@meio_feio]

Os anglos são assim

[@MarcoMoreira92]

I have a suggestion, why don’t you make a video about the rebuild of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake

[@carlosandino821]

The ambitious project to rebuild the city headed by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, aka Marquês de Pombal. A city planned according to the Enlightenment precepts that he admired so much and that won many enemies, from the clergy and part of the court to the daughter of the king, in the case of Maria I.

[@edsr164]

Great suggestion

[@christophermerlot3366]

2 fun facts: Brasilia partially inspired the set design of Blade Runner. And it's original design looked like an airplane when viewed from above.

[@claudialuizalonghini]

that's acctualy a miss quote: lucio costa said in his pilot plan that it's a "cross mark, resembling one that we make to mark a spot" like in a treasure map. so it's a X slighty curved to fit the slope.

[@christophermerlot3366]

@@claudialuizalonghini Interesting I did not know that. I thought Niemeyer wanted an airplane shape.

[@Ephebvs]

It's actually pronounced with a Z sound both in English and Portuguese. The closed captions showed Priscilla when he said Brasília haha! It's not officially pronounced Bra see lia in English. And in Portuguese it's pronounced Brazee lyuh. The r sounds like the American double d in daddy or double t in bitter, better, butter. J and ge, gi in Portuguese sounds like the g in genre and garage or the s in measure, leisure.

[@surferdude4487]

I dimly remember seeing a documentary on the construction of this city. The entire place was made of poured concrete. They got variety and the beauty of the architecture from the shapes of the pouring forms. It's almost like Raymond Moriama built an entire city.

[@sutherlandA1]

Brazil built a new capital in 3 years, meanwhile Australia took about 75 years to complete Canberra

[@fredericofurlan]

Greetings from Brasília !!

[@lincolnlg490]

Brasília was built for a single reason: to guarantee the governability of the new president. The previous one had committed suicide, due to the pressure in Rio. City opened in 1960. In 1964, our wonderful American friends represented by their president, Lyndon Johnson, arranged a military coup for us. The original planning of a city for 500 thousand inhabitants was no longer followed. The infrastructure that was supposed to be increased every 500 thousand was never fulfilled.

[@andrepretini9351]

Loved the vid! I don't understand, however, why you didn't mention that the city is shaped like an aeroplane. Its true!

[@JulioCesar-gt8ds]

Brasilia foi chamada "A capital da esperança" assim que foi construída. Esse nome tem se mostrado perfeito, por que nós ainda estamos esperando....

[@joaoialima]

I have lived in 6 countries (Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Amaterdam, Tokyo, Recife, São Paulo, Brasilia and Cascais/Lisbon-now), and after Cascais, Brasilia has BY FAR the best quality of life for a high medium class family. It’s safe, beatiful, full of nature beauties around and is, compared to those cities, relatively cheap. However, all you said is “bureaucratically” true, but lack the sense of “living” there.

[@danielaamartine2802]

My beautifil Brasília 💚💛

[@habitos.delano.franklin8663]

I live in Brasília since 1965. I Saw this city growing. Exelent explication about the short and incredible história of It. Tks

[@pauld6967]

I have never been there, it is on my 'To Do' list. Thanks for giving me a new perspective on the place.

[@davidkamen]

This narrator absolutely "murders" the pronounciation of Portuguese names by "Anglizing" them without any effort to correctly pronounce them. It is also quite odd that an obvious British gentleman uses waving arms and flailing hands as if swatting away swarms of insects. Why ?

[@Jimblefy]

I never knew this. Thanks for the informative video Simon and team :)

[@sganzerlag]

Great video, thanks for featuring my favorite city!! Congrats on the research, yall did a pretty good job! Brasilia is probably not a very easy subject for a foreigner to research successfully. Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.

[@derekjparnell]

Canberra, the capital of Australia is also a designed city. A competition was held for the design and the chosen one was built - actually, some parts are still being built. The location was set in between Sydney and Melbourne, the two (still) rival main cities in the country.

[@victorpisarev7768]

This guy REALLY likes creating various channels)

[@jonathanilardi7968]

Canberra is also a great planned Capitol city to look into as is Washington DC

[@jonathanilardi7968]

Forgot Boulder City home of the workers of the Hoover Dam

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@jonathanilardi7968 Not a major city like Brasilia is. I think Brasilia is in the running for youngest major world city on the planet, being only 61 years old and such.

[@leogomez1003]

A symphony was made for the construction of Brasilia, from the famous composers Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, it is called "Sinfonia da Alvorada". You could have used it as a soundtrack.

[@NobletheSavage]

Wow , that was bitter sweet .

[@greutera]

As a child I was fascinated by Brasilia when it was part of an issue of National Geographic

[@alinealbuquerque5824]

Hi everyone, I live in Brasília! Congratulations for the accurate of informations! It's perfect!

[@nolakillabeast]

I often find myself pausing your videos and going to the kitchen to make tea. I kid you not, your videos make me want tea and than they make me want to study. Bless you Simon

[@gutobernardo7457]

I don't care which channel it's on, the video is great! The facts are spot on as usual, Simon!

[@andrea6637]

This was solid, please keep these coming.

[@isabelaandrade9276]

I from Brasília, this video is very cool! Thank you!

[@juanferrero2009]

Great video, thanks a lot man!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@goodchessactor]

Thanks for the cool video. When I was much younger I would tell my friends that Brasilia was the capital of Brazil and they would laugh at me saying it was Rio de Janeiro. I got the last laugh.

[@luizzrosette]

Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil in 1763 to 1960

[@andrealbuquerque9646]

The video was pretty accurate (besides citing São Paulo as a coastal city, which it is not) until it's last 3 minutes. Brasília is so much more than just an "empty shell". It has the 3rd largest economy in the country, with many multinational companies having their HQs there, as well as on of the highest HDIs in Brazil, including most of the satellite cities (some of them really are very poor, however). It is also a significant cultural center, having a strong music scene, many museums and universities and great nightlife. It's not Rio or São Paulo, true, but comparing them is like comparing Los Angeles and New York to Washington D.C.. Living there is actually pretty great, even though it does have quite a few of social and structural problems. Anyway, the video is really nice, it just get's the "how Brasília is in the 21st century" thing a bit wrong.

[@zackmadden132]

Simon really must be going crazy. He forgot about the whole Megaprojects channel

[@SotonSam]

Video idea for Side Projects. Southampton waterfront/docks. The water was forced back over land to create a docks, one of UK's biggest. There's a shopping centre there now West Quay

[@MarshFlyFightWin]

Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video. Hope more videos are coming.

[@thejohanvalli]

Also very very great video, again! :)

[@hayreddinbarbarossa661]

My suggestion for side projects are the intricacies of Danny's attempted escape tunnels.

[@--enyo--]

I thought it had been established that 'Danny' and 'Sam' are just Simon's multiple personalities and he's just yelling at himself. /deep lore of Business Blaze.

[@mateusscartezini2428]

hey mate! cool video! hugs from brasilia !

[@dingus153]

Australia did the whole "build a whole new city for the capital" thing first, we just did it because two cities couldn't decide who should be the capital

[@JL-sm6cg]

How long ago was Canberra built?

[@dingus153]

@@JL-sm6cg about 100 years ago IIRC. Somewhere between the 1910s and 1920s the design of the city was first submitted

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@dingus153 okay so not as short a time ago as Brasilia. I'm also assuming it was Melbourne and Sydney fighting over it, right?

[@dingus153]

@@JL-sm6cg yeah that's correct mate, both of them wanted to be the capital, so the federal government told them to go screw themselves and made a new state just for the capital. Fun fact, it's the only state to be landlocked and therefore not have a seaport

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@dingus153 isn't the A.C.T. a territory though?

[@peterbroderson6080]

I much prefer your business like delivery in this video than when you "try" to be funny. This one full of interesting information, thanks

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@andrelinked]

São Paulo is not a costal city, it stads 800m above sea level

[@7TPdwCzolgu]

I died inside when he said spoke portuguese names with spanish accent, i am disgusted Also, satellite cities don't exist anymore, they were transformed in Administrative Regions, that is different from municipality and neighbourhood, the Federal District itself is an type of different thing that have state features and municipality features, the city of Rio de Janeiro until 1960 was divided in the same way Brasília is divided today(para os meus conterrâneos brasilienses, é um segredo, não contem para os ceilandenses que o Rio também tinha R.As ou o cérebro deles fritam), and the administrative mostly have neighbourhoods inside it that are also neighbourhoods of Brasília, complicated right? Correction:no, we have nightlife and culture, what the heck is you saying? Another correction:mostly workers that worked on the construction of Brasília were from the northeast, center-west and sometimes from Minas Gerais, not from north and northeast, and the northeast isn't poor kek

[@7TPdwCzolgu]

@@felipegarcia487 segunda região mais rica

[@4ToMiKA]

Another aspect often untold unless you know the locals- traffic. Brasilia was built in a time where the 'automobile' was envisioned to be the transport mode of the future, and the urban layout accommodated that. However as times moved on a public transport became more widely used (often due to economically disadvantaged workers in the government buildings), bus systems were implemented but this only created further fluidity problems in the cities transit systems. That central square where the roundabout is? that was turned into a bus terminus to acommodate all the extra public transport needed, and even today, the traffic issues persist. Beautiful city though, and an absolute inspiration for us architects!

[@Lachausis]

Maybe study more of victorian, french neoclassicism, jugend style, instead of this dystopian monstrosity. You post-modernists are killing the architecture.

[@vintagedesert]

39 seconds after upload, goddammit Simon, I have things to do today! Now I've gotta stop and watch this first.

[@_mrhafizwilliams_]

This megaproject was familiar to Putrajaya, Malaysia. The same objective, in which to move the government from the bustling large city like Kuala Lumpur. Except for the Parliament, because it had already built in the center of KL, a few years after independence like the early 60s. I hope Simon can make a video about Putrajaya in the future Putrajaya was built in the mid-90s. Right now, it has been a thriving city since then, with the largest roundabout in the world.

[@RodolphosTechchannel]

Thank you, i suggested this!

[@homefront3162]

lies!😂

[@RodolphosTechchannel]

@@homefront3162 I did many times in every video, I am from Brazil and I always told him it should be a megaproject

[@GlenHunt]

Sydney Opera House maybe? I mean, Aussies need some love too, right?

[@kjsdpgijn]

I love Bindi, if that counts 🤷‍♂️

[@DrNothing23]

You should consider doing a Project vid on Black Rock City... IE Burning Man. They build the third biggest city in the state and then, weeks later, take it all down every year. BIG WORK!

[@RodolphosTechchannel]

Research about Cathedral of Maringá, it’s the tallest church in Latin America and one of the tallest in the world, the design inspired by the Sputnik satellite, it’s taller than the London eye and its less than 40 years old

[@VinnieMTG2024]

nice composition very good review

[@jordanherkowski5052]

Have you covered Walt Disney's original plan for Epcot?

[@Michael_0589]

I agree with everyone in the comments, this belongs on Megaprojects. But then again, when you run as many channels as Mr Whistler confusion is bound to happen.

[@joshuapatrick682]

I thought I was crazy for think Rio was the capital at some point. Thanks Simon!

[@adrielpa94]

Really nice video, But as a Brazilian myself I'd say the video lacks a "map" showing what difference moving the capital inwards, changes. Like, a map showing its formers capitals (Salvador up in the northeastern coast, Rio, in the southeastern coast), and then Brasilia, in the middle of nowhere

[@jaymatz5881]

View time is heavily underrated for this interesting project.

[@goncalorodrigues7103]

incredibly interesting, in my opinion it was megaproject worthy

[@InFlamedParlysis88]

Side Projects- NOAA and the extensive weather monitoring infrastructure.

[@djboomlantern729]

Good day, Mr. Whistler. Your channels are must watch for me every day. I do have a request for a project story. Consider the sewer systems of my hometown of NYC. Also, the history of the Paris and London systems should be considered as well.

[@user-hv3ls2wh2e]

Por mais que o vídeo seja interessante, há muita desinformação....

[@RikSandstromCalifornia]

Simon, How about doing an actual MegaProjects episode? I'm sure that a LOT of people would be interested.

[@skibassist01]

São Paulo even though close to the coast it is not a coastal city, as matter of fact, traveling from the coast to são paulo city center one must go up almost 1km while traversing the serra do mar ridge. Both the imigrantes-anchieta highways and the railway from santos to paranapiacaba would be great video topics for Sideprojects Simon!

[@arnbrandy]

As someone born and raised in Brasília, it's cool to see it mentioned here. Really liked the video! I just think São Paulo is not coastal. It is much closer to the shore than Brasília, but still far from the sea. The São Paulo state, whose capital is São Paulo, is coastal though. (Maybe "coastal" in English would include cities at an 1:30 of car driving from the coast, is that so?)

[@antoniolombardi4003]

Congrats! It is quite accurate!

[@ALROD]

Is it? He almost said the satellite cities look like slums.

[@antoniolombardi4003]

@@ALROD Brasilia satellite cities are indeed very complicated places with social insecurity for its population and in need of a great deal of attention. Started up as slums in fact. Besides, saying a place is a slum is not necessarily prejudice; may be just a matter of seeing reality as it is. It has nothing to do with people's character.

[@AlexandreJunior2014]

Great video and content, but just a correction, São Paulo is not a coastal city like Rio..it is almost 100km away and liike 1km above the sea.