Gentrification of the modernistic city: Brasília

Abstract

This article investigates the occurrence of gentrification in Brasília. There is criticism in relation to economic and social costs, to the effects of panoptic architecture in society, and especially to the State’s role and level of intervention, present in the high degree of urban regulation and in the monopoly of the land market. All these factors restrict the housing supply, and result in a pattern of territorial occupation framed in the city model called COM-FUSA (CON-FUSED), compact and diffused in the territory. Widespread gentrification is perceived in the statement that Brasília is the automobile city, which is revealed by the largest proportion of cars per inhabitants, and mainly by the amount of cars for use in the fields. It is observed that the housing deficit problem is not related to land scarcity, but to property scarcity.