After two days in Brasilia, I’m understanding more and more why my friend was under the impression that there were no sidewalks in the Distrito Federal. Brasilia is…interesting. It is a city built for the latter half of the twentieth century–a city built for the automobile–and a city that continues to inhabit that space and time. There are few genuine public spaces. There are a plethora of indoor malls. And while Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic structures are fascinating, their brutalist nature seemingly engulfs the city’s soul in concrete. Brasilia was the future. Today, perhaps, it is the past
Traveling Fern 