Post-Occupancy Evaluation at the Urban Scale in Brazil

Abstract

During the years between 1968 and 1973, Brazil experienced the so-called “Brazilian miracle,” which eventually resulted in a hundred-billion-dollar debt. The population was growing fast and urbanization even faster. The GNP will soon reach $300 million and the annual per capita income will reach something like $2, 000. There is not much meaning in this “per capita” figure, because income is concentrated within a relatively small population of the very rich. During the past 20 years Brazil was ruled by an authoritarian government: indeed, many people are describing the regime as “authoritarian centralism,” which is a good but somewhat euphemistic characterization.