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- Title
Brazil Builds a New City.
- Authors
De Lima, Sigrid
- Abstract
The article presents information about the development of a new city named Cidade dos Motores in Baixada Fluminense, Brazil. It is planned for a population of 25,000 persons. But, unique among the host of housing projects and developments that have sprung up all over South America since the first workers' housing inaugurated by Chile some forty years ago, this city envisages a whole new way of life for its population and for Brazil as a whole. Housing generally has long been a major public issue in Brazil. Jacob Crane, Special Assistant to the Administrator, United States National Housing Authority, noted early last year that Brazilian work has been outstanding for good concrete engineering and the ingenuity of design. Public projects, notably the Realengo development near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, have been financed with social security reserve funds. Private building, likewise, has enjoyed an unprecedented boom, much of it, unfortunately, of a speculative nature, with new banks springing up everywhere with nominal capital to finance realty operations.
- Subjects
BAIXADA Fluminense (Brazil); RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); BRAZIL; PLANNED communities; PUBLIC housing; SOCIAL security taxes
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1947, Vol 6, Issue 3, p335
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1947.tb01566.x