The construction of Brasília is a significant achievement in history and architecture. The Brazilian modernist movement definitively established Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer as their representatives. It led the modernist city to be tested as the new urban order. Nevertheless, the city did not emerge alone, nor was it completely utopic, modern, or modernizing. Alongside the new capital, planned and organic neighboring cities were built.
While a competition was being planned to define the architectural proposal for the upcoming capital in 1956, the number of migrants arriving on the plateau in search of employment and better living conditions was growing fast. Without an urban structure to receive them, the so-called "candangos" built makeshift and irregular camps around construction sites. The Cidade Livre, a complex of commerce and services approximately 12 kilometers from where the Plano Piloto would be, served as a support for Braslia construction and began to grow organically and rapidly with the region's demographic increase.
