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The City That Isn't
The National Congress building AFP/Getty Images
In the 1950s, architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died recently at age 104, designed the buildings for Brazil's capital, Brasília. It was meant to be a utopia, a clean, egalitarian, glowing vision of the future. So, some 50 years, later, is it? (story and video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20632277
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