Brasilia and the utopia of an egalitarian city: hidden shades of gender-oriented segregation (original) (raw)

Brasilia is commonly described as a utopian project that aimed to create an egalitarian society through urban planning. As an egalitarian city, it was understood that its urbanism should offer to all its inhabitants, without social distinctions, equal opportunities and the urban qualities necessary for a full human development. Its urban plan and architecture, based on the Modern Movement premises, should be an inductor of social change, as the solution for traditional Brazilian socio-economic segregation. In the words Richard Williams "A city for a free men with access to the best living conditions regardless of racial or social origins" (2009, 30).