Show Legen Utah Wednesday April ZS TIm NeraM Jeeranl— 5 1971 Brasilia Dream City That Isn’t BRASILIA Brazil (UPI) -- years old urban renewal haa human the consumption” This modernistic capital city already become a necessity ernor said marked its 13th anniversary “You will not find a worker He said the massive this weekend with its future living in the piano piloto” the tion to the district uncertain and the dreams of its superintendent of the Brasilia “Ceilandia" a builders unhilfilled Though it has consolidated its position as the national political capital and as a springboard for development of the interior Brasilia is still a far cry from the “dream city" its planners conceived in 1957 Its population is growing by uncontrollable proportions some 14 per cent a year Housing is in short supply The central city known as the “Plano Piloto" (Pilot Plan) is surrounded by burracos (shanties) and favelas (slums) most of them hidden from the eyes of visitors because they are miles from the center of town Hie city was designed for the age of the automobile It was thought traffic lights were not necessary because of modern highway patteraa Now the federal district government has decided only traffic lights can control the twice-dail- y traffic Jams Costa Lucio the urban designer who mapped out the basic city plan hoped that service workers in Brasilia would live in the same the "superneighborhoods blocks” as cabinet ministers and highranking diplomats and bureaucrats The superblocks however have come to belong to the middle and upper middle class The poor and lower middle ’ class have settled in the “satellite cities” and favelas AN AERIAL VIEW of Brasilia the modernistic capital dtp of Brazil which marked tt 13th anniversary thk week with ita future and the dreams of its builders ufuUilled Youth To Pay For Victim’s Funeral Costs PLACERVILLE Calif (UPI) — At hia own request Dennis R McGuire-1will pay $1400 in hospital and funeral expenses incurred by the family of a youth he accidentally shot and killed McGuire of El Dorado pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter In the death of Lester M Toombs Jr and was sentenced to a suspended fad term and placed on three years probation Court records Superior showed Tuesday that Judge Robert E Roberts officially made the payment an order of six-mon- th the court after McGuire re- quested it and the Toombs family agreed Authorities said Toombs died several horn after he was shot in the head with a JScaliber revolver the two youths were passing between each other in Toombs' mobile home Jan 20 where 457000 of Brasilia’s population of 630000 persons live Ministers generals and ambassadors prefer to live in individual homes across a lake from the “Plano Piloto” Only the southern residential wing of the inner dty has been built The northern wing Riled with temporary shacks and overgrown with weeds in some areas is still under construction Although the dty is only 13 Planning Agency Evandro Jose de Macedo told UPI What went wrong with making Brasilia an urban Utopia? Designer Costa interviewed by UPI in Rio de Janeiro had gov- reloca- called bus ride from the Plano Piloto was a "complete success It was accomplished without one instance of violence” But for the people who have to live in Ceilandia life is as !" miserable as any in a ready answer Brazil Henldo Smato Ma“This is Braiil not a civilized chado a bus driver European country but a country with two children said it ifas in development” he said Just rugged in Ceilandia ai li Costa said his original idea was in his poor hometown of was for one third of the Patrodnio Minas Gerais State construction workers hired to "Brasilia is an illusion" he build Brasilia to be employed in told UPI “People came here government-ru- n “model farms” around the city Another third for public Jobe but they found would be housed in the the wages low and they have to live in barracos Water costs superblocks while the final one cruzeiro (18 cents) a liter third would return home Instead the construction and but we do not know if it is service workers have stayed good We drink it anyway and more keep coming as the “The crime in Ceilandia is building boom continues They unbelievable Every night there found homes in the satellite is another shooting You cannot cities and the favelas because go on the street safely without they could not afford the better a machinegun in your hand” dwellings w ere barred from the “They superblocks when President Juscelino Kubitschek (195881) decided to make them selffinancing" Costa said “The model farms were never u attempted” The governor of the federal district Col Hello Prates da Silveira said Costa's ideas of mixing the rich and the poor in the same neighborhoods was “Utopian” “What counts is money” he told UPI “If you cant meet the rent you have to move to a cheaper place" In an effort to keep up the city’s appearances Gov Silveira ordered 82000 favelados with their shanties and belongings removed to a sane several miles out of town where they would no longer be an eyesore though they would live in much the same conditions “Their barracos were polluting the lake so much that it was 660 times more polluted than the tolerance level of Why doesn’t he go back to Minas Gerais? “That would cost money I do not have” Machado replied “I have applied for a public housing unit I make 700 cruzeiros ($116) a month which is more than most in Ceilandia by driving a bus 12 hours a day” According to Superintendent Jose de Macedo the fevela dweller such as bus driver Machado is better off in a barraco in Brasilia than he is in a slum in the hrfcimi of Minas Gerais or the impoverished northeast when most of the Brasilia workmen originate “Let me be perfectly blunt" De Macedo told UPI “The favelado knows he will starve but he would rather starve In gorasilia than in the interior In Brasilia he at least has a chance at some medical attention and education for his kids” For the moderately well-of- f life in Brasilia also haa its drawbacks Good restaurants are few The best hub National-t- he hotel-T- he of business and Ufa has excellent service and comfortable rooms but tte stained carpets on every floor are a reminder to visitors that Brasilia is still a frontier dty in many respects Cultural and social life is scarce The “cultural lector” in the city's central mill consists t of only a vacant lot The one national theater with a capacity occasionally stages road plays What type of planning is being done for the future? 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