As Certeau argues, walking divulges something intimate: the personalized use of the city. In literature from Brasília, walking divulges pleasure seeking, risk taking, and attempts to personalize a city designed more for cars than pedestrians. Walking in Brasília is somewhat of a paradox. What is the role of the pedestrian in a city designed for car travel and shaped like an airplane? This series of poems, crônicas, contos, and songs (by Nicolas Behr, Aborto Elétrico, Capital Inicial, Legião Urbana, GOG, José Rezende Jr., Pedro Biondi, Liziane Guazina, Fernanda Barreto, and Augusto Rodrigues) overturn Brasília's top-down origins and organization, suggesting that current residents-as they walk around the city in their daily lives-are creating and transforming the capital in significant ways.
Brasília; literature from Brasília; music from Brasília; Nicolas Behr