Brasília

Brasilia’s Pathways of Desire

Streetsblog San Francisco (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sometimes you just can't stop human beings from acting like animals. And I mean that in the best possible way. Take, for example, the walking paths of Brasilia, the Brazilian capital city that was planned down to the smallest detail in the 1950s and ’60s -- planned for a populace that would move about exclusively by [...]

• Brasilia’s Pathways of Desire - Streetsblog
• Brasilia’s Pathways of Desire - Streetsblog Capitol Hill

The Walking Paths of Brasilia

Streetsblog.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

The City of Brasilia, conceived and built in the 1950’s and 60’s, is the exemplar of modernist urban planning. It’s got it all: extreme separation of uses, access only by motor vehicle, mid-rise boxy buildings set in vast open spaces, and a conspicuous absence of any history before the mid-twentieth century. There are no traffic [...]

Ultra VW Brasilia feature...out now...

Autostyl (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

Its here, perfect timing, the Autostyl Brasilia has an awesome 6-page feature in Ultra VW, thanks to KS and the Ultra Team.... Just in time for its new owner to grab a copy the same time as picking the car up, to live over in Germany.

Iran makes uranium-swap proposal, not West: Ahmadinejad

People Daily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday the proposal to give part of Iran's uranium to Russia and France in exchange for enriched uranium came from his country not the West. &$ &$Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures during a press conference in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, Nov. 23, 2009. Ahmadinejad is on a one day official visit to Brazil which is the first for Iranian...

• Brazil: World must engage, not isolate Iran - San Diego Union
• World must engage not isolate Iran: Brazil - CBC.ca

Lula welcomes Ahmadinejad despite U.S. unease

Hindu (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

DUBAI: Iran has taken a major step forward to establish close ties with Brazil as part of an effort to deepen relations with Latin America. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to hold talks in Brasilia, where he arrived on ...

Lula acknowledges Iran's right to 'peaceful' nuclear programme

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Brasilia - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad obtained Brazil's support Monday for Tehran's controversial nuclear programme as long as it is for peaceful ends. We acknowledge Iran's right to develop a nuclear programme for peaceful ends, with fu...

People in gold suits

Click opera (Free subscription) | yesterday

Who should I run into at breakfast this morning in the Hotel Metropol, Warsaw, but Kajsa and Benjamin from Abake? Swedish Kajsa is the cover star of my Ocky Milk album, and French Benjamin is also part of music fashion label Kitsune. They told me they'd come to Warsaw to visit the artist Pawel Althamer, and started describing his Common Tasks project to me. Like Abake (who mount socially-oriented conceptual...

Brazilian protests greet Ahmadinejad at start of South American tour

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thousands take to streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to denounce Iranian president's record on rights and Israel Protests greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brazil at the start of a South American tour intended to bolster the Iranian president's legitimacy and ease his country's international isolation. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on the eve of Ahmadinejad's...

Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday

BRASILIA, Brazil -- British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest.

Protests precede Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Brasilia - Several hundred people on Sunday protested the upcoming visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, taking him to task for his denial of the Holocaust. The protests, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, are expected to be followed by pr...

Brazil enters minefield of Ahmadinejad's visit

Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | yesterday

President Ahmadinejad's short visit to Brasilia is being seen as a calculated risk for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. But it promises significant boosts to both leaders.

Brazil's President Defends Visit of Iranian Leader - New York Times

Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday

Seattle Post Intelligencer Brazil's President Defends Visit of Iranian Leader New York Times BRASÍLIA — As leaders from Brazil and Iran prepared to meet here on Monday, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, defended his decision to play host to the Iranian president at a moment of rising tension over Iran's ... Larijani says Iran pursue more global interaction PRESS TV Brazil...

Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon

Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | yesterday

BRASILIA, Brazil — British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices...

Iran prez seeks new legitimacy in visit to Brazil

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

BRASILIA, Brazil - For Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil provides some sorely needed political legitimacy for his increasingly isolated nation. For...

Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon

Rocky Mount Telegram - Business (Free subscription) | yesterday

BRASILIA, Brazil — British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices...