stackyFACTSThe 9 de Julio Avenue is so ridiculously wide that crossing it as a pedestrian is essentially a multi-stage athletic event. City planners demolished entire blocks just to ensure they had the most obnoxiously massive thoroughfare possible.
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Instead of letting a city develop over centuries, Brasília was slapped together in a frenzied 41-month sprint. They carved an entire functional capital out of…
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