Why Saudi Arabia Is Building a Linear City

Brasília is a garbage city complete anti people. It's architect is a devoted communist and followed guidelines for the "perfect" soviet city for ruling the people. A city in the middle of nowhere, with terrain difficult to access, with wide open spaces, etc to put government officials as far away as possible from the people. Making social revolutions a lot more difficult, it's difficult to the population to move to Brasília to protest and for the ones that already live there, it's difficult to move around the city and close to the sit o power (the police close a few streets and you can only go on foot). A small contingent of soldiers could easily gun down thousands of people that were trying to get to the politicians and bureaucrats into the three power square, like cattle in the savana, open fields. 

If the government capital had continued in Rio de Janeiro, a lot of shit could have happened in the past 50 years. 6 million people live in Rio (the city alone), São Paulo the state and city is just a few hours of driving away, it would be near impossible to stop a angry mob (and Brazilians have a lot of reason to be angry against the government) in a traditional metropolitan area.

Brasília was a project to move the government away from the people and protect the government from the people.