Is this a megaproject? Yes. Should it be on the Megaprojects channel? Probably. But Sideprojects is also about the length and style of the video. It's not the 20 minute deep dive that MP is, but a quicker look at things :).

Built a plane? - Megaprojects Built a car? - Megaprojects Built an entire Moda F-ing city? Sideproject at best

When a MIG 29 is considered a Megaproject and building a city is considered a Sideproject 😄

I don't know chief, this looks like a Megaproject to me...

You forgot to mention that Brasilia was designed to look like an aeroplane from the sky!

You guys really didn't mention that Brasilia is shaped like an airplane. Kinda disappointed.

This was more of a "Megaproject" than the President's car was - by far.

In New York City there is a building of Oscar Niemeyer, guess what it's. The Plenarium of the see of the United Nations.

Oscar Niemeyer’s masterpiece. I visited Brasília a few years ago. It’s absolutely stunning. A must see for fans of architecture.

There were two extra reasons for Brasilia: - On the military point of view, in a time when ICBMs didn't exist, it is better to have a capital in the middle of the continent, for best protection. - Moving the politicians far away from the people...

I visited Brasilia last year, just before this madness of 2020. Amazing city. I love it so much! Brasil in general is amazing! Even with all of its problems - Brasil is majestic in so many ways. Hope to visit again soon.

Greetings! I am a resident of Brasília, more precisely one of the satellites called Ceilândia (understand that the satellite cities here would be like conglomerates of neighborhoods separated from the center, but dependent on this center in a certain way). The problem with the Kubitscheck project is that it did not notice the immense popularity of the project and that it attracted hundreds of thousands of people, and this continued even after the death of the project, since the excess of people has a lot to do with populist policies that made the city swell, to the point of becoming the 11th most populous city in the Americas, and this has serious consequences for public services and, especially, for transportation. But thanks for explaining about the city I live in, I'm tired of having to explain that I don't live in Rio de Janeiro!

I live in Rio de Janeiro, but Brasília is my home town. I am really proud of it. Only those who doesn't know its history and purposes can, unfortunately, deceive or deny its greatness, as a whole modern city built from nothing in 3 years, by men and women like my grandfather and grandmother, an achievement we keep turning real until today. A capital of hope alone wouldn't change a country, but Brasília portrays the dreams and real work from our ancestors, we try to honor them. May Brazil's capital city be more known and its people's value recognized!

I'm brazilian and I have lived in Brasília for 18 years. I can say that this is the best description of Brasília by a foreigner that I've ever seen. Of course, more could have been said, but all that was said is correct. Really liked it

It's ironic that the home of one of the slowest things on the planet, government bureaucracy, was built in record time.

While in Brazil you could cover the building of Christ the Redeemer statue, either Mega or Side project.

Cool video! I'd argue that Brasilia isn't particularly a dead, government restricted city, though. Having lived there myself. There's quite a lot to do and it's very pretty. Also São Paulo is not a coastal city. Close, but it's not exactly on the coast.

I'm sorry if this sounds rude; but this looks like it belongs more on megaprojects.

Sao Paulo is not a costal city! It’s 60-90km from the sea.

I´m watching this from Brasília, noice!

I actually live in Brasília, born and raised. Just some side notes: 1 - Brasília is a great city to live in. 2 - Our nightlife exists, and it's pretty darn good. 3 - We have lots of museums, art, music and culture. 4 - The architecture makes this city into a living work of art, and just like a painting or a sculpture, you may not like the style, but Brasília is definitely something to see. 5 - The satellite cities are NOTHING like shanty towns, of course there are significant poorer areas, but it's nothing like what you put on the video, it was a really not a good comparison.

I live in Brasília since 1965. I Saw this city growing. Exelent explication about the short and incredible história of It. Tks

Wait, how was this not a megaproject?

I remember learning it was the capital, but I never knew it was built after I was born. We should teach more about the rest if the America’s in school.

The president's car is a megaproject, but this entire city is a side project? I love your content Simon but what 😅

2 fun facts: Brasilia partially inspired the set design of Blade Runner. And it's original design looked like an airplane when viewed from above.

My grandfather was one of the architects in Lucio Costa teams...He lived there for 3 years... Had some really cool stories!

SO happy and fun to see a lot of fellow Brazilians here *-*♥ (I'm also from Brasilia ♥)

This channel has exploded out of the gates. Great work Simon, and team!

Great video, thanks a lot man!

This was solid, please keep these coming.

I never knew this. Thanks for the informative video Simon and team :)

I have a suggestion, why don’t you make a video about the rebuild of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake

Brasilia foi chamada "A capital da esperança" assim que foi construída. Esse nome tem se mostrado perfeito, por que nós ainda estamos esperando....

Please be aware that Álvares is not spelled like in Spanish. Great video. Brasília is a beautiful place, unlike any other.

Greetings from Brasília !!

It's "São Paulo", not "Sao Paolo" (I can understand your inability to write "ã", but changing "Paulo" to Italian "Paolo" is unjustified. It's also "Álvares", not "Álvarez". He was Portuguese, not Spanish.

Also very very great video, again! :)

Great video, thanks for featuring my favorite city!! Congrats on the research, yall did a pretty good job! Brasilia is probably not a very easy subject for a foreigner to research successfully. Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.

My beautifil Brasília 💚💛

This video is amazing, I’m from Brasília and I love when we architecture is recognized for people from another countries 🇧🇷

I dimly remember seeing a documentary on the construction of this city. The entire place was made of poured concrete. They got variety and the beauty of the architecture from the shapes of the pouring forms. It's almost like Raymond Moriama built an entire city.

Loved the vid! I don't understand, however, why you didn't mention that the city is shaped like an aeroplane. Its true!

I from Brasília, this video is very cool! Thank you!

hey mate! cool video! hugs from brasilia !

I often find myself pausing your videos and going to the kitchen to make tea. I kid you not, your videos make me want tea and than they make me want to study. Bless you Simon

I have never been there, it is on my 'To Do' list. Thanks for giving me a new perspective on the place.

Canberra is also a great planned Capitol city to look into as is Washington DC

I don't care which channel it's on, the video is great! The facts are spot on as usual, Simon!

Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video. Hope more videos are coming.

nice composition very good review

Simon really must be going crazy. He forgot about the whole Megaprojects channel

Australia did the whole "build a whole new city for the capital" thing first, we just did it because two cities couldn't decide who should be the capital

Canberra, the capital of Australia is also a designed city. A competition was held for the design and the chosen one was built - actually, some parts are still being built. The location was set in between Sydney and Melbourne, the two (still) rival main cities in the country.

This guy REALLY likes creating various channels)

Thanks for the cool video. When I was much younger I would tell my friends that Brasilia was the capital of Brazil and they would laugh at me saying it was Rio de Janeiro. I got the last laugh.

incredibly interesting, in my opinion it was megaproject worthy

Good video 👍

As a child I was fascinated by Brasilia when it was part of an issue of National Geographic

A symphony was made for the construction of Brasilia, from the famous composers Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, it is called "Sinfonia da Alvorada". You could have used it as a soundtrack.

Hi everyone, I live in Brasília! Congratulations for the accurate of informations! It's perfect!

How old is this? Brasilia has a great nightlife, thousands of restaurants and tons of shopping malls. It’s a great city with wide streets , no traffic jams and many modern new buildings. Ah, and basically cashless. I love it and it has a great quality of life. October, 2021.

My suggestion for side projects are the intricacies of Danny's attempted escape tunnels.

Sydney Opera House maybe? I mean, Aussies need some love too, right?

I have lived in 6 countries (Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Amaterdam, Tokyo, Recife, São Paulo, Brasilia and Cascais/Lisbon-now), and after Cascais, Brasilia has BY FAR the best quality of life for a high medium class family. It’s safe, beatiful, full of nature beauties around and is, compared to those cities, relatively cheap. However, all you said is “bureaucratically” true, but lack the sense of “living” there.

Video idea for Side Projects. Southampton waterfront/docks. The water was forced back over land to create a docks, one of UK's biggest. There's a shopping centre there now West Quay

Thank you

I much prefer your business like delivery in this video than when you "try" to be funny. This one full of interesting information, thanks

Wow , that was bitter sweet .

Good day, Mr. Whistler. Your channels are must watch for me every day. I do have a request for a project story. Consider the sewer systems of my hometown of NYC. Also, the history of the Paris and London systems should be considered as well.

Nice one

Hey as a person born and raised in Brasília I have a few curiosities to bring, simon this is a megaproject please do your research 1 Lucio actually didn't want to win the contest, he was pressure to submit something and just made a sketch of an bird 2 National rock was basically born here 3 Oscar actually planned for the lower class to live in the city, the 400's squares have smallers apartments than the 200's, 100's and 300's which all have three bedrooms apartments or more. But the city where planned for few people and they didn't account for all the imigrants. 4 they made an artificial lake, thinking about entertainment for the citizens 5 Plano piloto, is how this part of Brasília is called, today all of the federal district can be considered Brasília. The city organization is based on the cartesian plane, all the places are called by the position on the plane using North, South, East and West as reference. So a residential square on the north wing (Asa Norte) and on the west side of what would be the X axis is identified as "SQN 301" (SQ means that it is a residential block, N means north of the "Y" axis, and the odd hundreds (100, 300, 500) means west of X)

Por mais que o vídeo seja interessante, há muita desinformação....

View time is heavily underrated for this interesting project.

Have you covered Walt Disney's original plan for Epcot?

Hi, I am an architect and urban planner born in Brasilia and still live here... We don't say 'satellite cities' anymore because its pejorative, nowadays everyone of those cities are like neighborhoods.

Could you do a video (Or two) on the new towns in the UK? E.g. Milton Keynes, Cumbernauld, Glenrothes

Research about Cathedral of Maringá, it’s the tallest church in Latin America and one of the tallest in the world, the design inspired by the Sputnik satellite, it’s taller than the London eye and its less than 40 years old

I thought I was crazy for think Rio was the capital at some point. Thanks Simon!

Could oasis class be good topic for the video. On this channel or in Megaprojects. (oasis-class= cruiseship class of Royal Caribbean International).

Side Projects- NOAA and the extensive weather monitoring infrastructure.

This megaproject was familiar to Putrajaya, Malaysia. The same objective, in which to move the government from the bustling large city like Kuala Lumpur. Except for the Parliament, because it had already built in the center of KL, a few years after independence like the early 60s. I hope Simon can make a video about Putrajaya in the future Putrajaya was built in the mid-90s. Right now, it has been a thriving city since then, with the largest roundabout in the world.

The video was pretty accurate (besides citing São Paulo as a coastal city, which it is not) until it's last 3 minutes. Brasília is so much more than just an "empty shell". It has the 3rd largest economy in the country, with many multinational companies having their HQs there, as well as on of the highest HDIs in Brazil, including most of the satellite cities (some of them really are very poor, however). It is also a significant cultural center, having a strong music scene, many museums and universities and great nightlife. It's not Rio or São Paulo, true, but comparing them is like comparing Los Angeles and New York to Washington D.C.. Living there is actually pretty great, even though it does have quite a few of social and structural problems. Anyway, the video is really nice, it just get's the "how Brasília is in the 21st century" thing a bit wrong.

You should consider doing a Project vid on Black Rock City... IE Burning Man. They build the third biggest city in the state and then, weeks later, take it all down every year. BIG WORK!

It's actually pronounced with a Z sound both in English and Portuguese. The closed captions showed Priscilla when he said Brasília haha! It's not officially pronounced Bra see lia in English. And in Portuguese it's pronounced Brazee lyuh. The r sounds like the American double d in daddy or double t in bitter, better, butter. J and ge, gi in Portuguese sounds like the g in genre and garage or the s in measure, leisure.

Mga/side project suggestion: Haussmann's renovation of Paris

São Paulo even though close to the coast it is not a coastal city, as matter of fact, traveling from the coast to são paulo city center one must go up almost 1km while traversing the serra do mar ridge. Both the imigrantes-anchieta highways and the railway from santos to paranapiacaba would be great video topics for Sideprojects Simon!

39 seconds after upload, goddammit Simon, I have things to do today! Now I've gotta stop and watch this first.

How many Eiffel towers was nescesary to built Brasília?

Magnitogorsk: *built in five years* Brasilia: Hold my drink

Another aspect often untold unless you know the locals- traffic. Brasilia was built in a time where the 'automobile' was envisioned to be the transport mode of the future, and the urban layout accommodated that. However as times moved on a public transport became more widely used (often due to economically disadvantaged workers in the government buildings), bus systems were implemented but this only created further fluidity problems in the cities transit systems. That central square where the roundabout is? that was turned into a bus terminus to acommodate all the extra public transport needed, and even today, the traffic issues persist. Beautiful city though, and an absolute inspiration for us architects!

"Build it and they will come" - And be denied access because they're not the rich elite...

Hello, I see you like helicopters. Would you consider doing one of the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel? It is the helicopter that landed on the top of Everest and I believe still holds the record for highest altitude landing. Sounds like a side project to me!

Great video! I really love watching your many channels and always learning something new from your videos, or just laughing hysterically (and somehow still learning something), while watching Business Blaze! I just wanted to point out that just like the country, the city’s name is pronounced BraZilia, as if it was written with a Z. Also, the J in José is pronounced as a soft J, never an H. Just blame the Portuguese language for this and other unique pronunciations, that seem to confuse speakers of most languages, even the Romance ones.

yay, I asked for this one!

As someone born and raised in Brasília, it's cool to see it mentioned here. Really liked the video! I just think São Paulo is not coastal. It is much closer to the shore than Brasília, but still far from the sea. The São Paulo state, whose capital is São Paulo, is coastal though. (Maybe "coastal" in English would include cities at an 1:30 of car driving from the coast, is that so?)

Really nice video, But as a Brazilian myself I'd say the video lacks a "map" showing what difference moving the capital inwards, changes. Like, a map showing its formers capitals (Salvador up in the northeastern coast, Rio, in the southeastern coast), and then Brasilia, in the middle of nowhere

Side Projects, have you done a video on the city of Manaus? That seems a bit more interesting, a city in the middle of the jungle.

My entire life I have never heard of Brasilia described as anything but a giant cluster fuck.

The AT&T Long Lines project. It would be good for this channel.