History Main / SpaceBrasilia

* Can happen in the ''Rush Hour'' expansion to ''VideoGame/SimCity 4'': you can choose from the six styles of building that will show up in your city; these are by default set to cycle every five years. This can lead to a fair number of very large neighborhoods looking very, very similar. However, you can change things up: in one direction, you can have the architectural styles [[AnachronismStew build all at once]]; if you find that it makes things a bit ''too'' weird, you can keep the cycle but set it to change faster (e.g. once a year), which creates smaller single-style neighborhoods (which is actually mildly realistic for an expanding city). On the other hand, you can also slow the cycle or even ban up to five styles outright (if you like the Brasília effect).

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* The CityInABottle in ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'' was almost ''filmed'' in Brasília, but due to infrastructure problems they decided for Berlin and Potsdam, Germany.

In speculative fiction, the architecture of alien species will often be oddly uniform across the board, with no variations owing to different styles being in fashion at different times, local environment or available materials. Might also apply to futuristic human cultures: it is rare to see a future city with architecture from different periods side by side, despite this being the norm in real life. Of course, while real-life housing developments are uniform in style and age, one does not usually build entire cities from scratch like this. One notable exception is the city of Brasília, which was built quickly between 1956 and 1960 in a uniform Modernist style to be a new showcase capital for UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} (as were UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Canberra]] and, even earlier, [[UsefulNotes/TheCityFormerlyKnownAs Saint Petersburg]] and Constantinople) and has been criticized for its bland and antiseptic appearance (as the others named [[TrueArtIsAncient had been when]] ''[[TrueArtIsAncient their]]'' [[TrueArtIsAncient prevailing architecture was dated but not yet antique]]).

* Literature/{{Worldwar}} sidesteps this. In ''Colonization'', humans finally visit the Race's homeworld and describe the cities. Because the Race has had a stable civilization for 100,000 years and have built their cities over that period, and are very meticulous about preservation, they have many buildings from all eras of their civilization, still in active use. However, because they have been largely technologically stagnant for their entire known history, the variation in architecture in their cities is much less than you might expect a human city of such age to have - after all, millennia old buildings are still fully suited to modern use.

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* Heavily used in ''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp''. This is justified, as Icetown was built as a city entirely planned and executed by huge 3D printers in civil construction, like Brasília, this makes the futuristic architecture of the city have identical and standardized buildings, such as Smartowers, smart skyscrappers which distributes wireless internet, opto-electric energy, and also captures and stores extra lightning energy whenever a storm approaches.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' the city of Metropolis has a futuristic look.

Named for the tendency of such settings to be filmed in set-piece futuristic towns [[CaliforniaDoubling like Brasília or Astana, Kazakhstan]].

In speculative fiction, the architecture of alien species will often be oddly uniform across the board, with no variations owing to different styles being in fashion at different times, local environment or available materials. Might also apply to futuristic human cultures: it is rare to see a future city with architecture from different periods side by side, despite this being the norm in real life. Of course, while real-life housing developments are uniform in style and age, one does not usually build entire cities from scratch like this. One notable exception is the city of Brasília, which was built quickly between 1956 and 1960 in a uniform Modernist style to be a new showcase capital for UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} (as were UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Canberra]] and, even earlier, St. Petersburg and Constantinople) and has been criticized for its bland and antiseptic appearance (as the others named [[TrueArtIsAncient had been when]] ''[[TrueArtIsAncient their]]'' [[TrueArtIsAncient prevailing architecture was dated but not yet antique]]).

* In ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'', Annika-709 describes the {{arcology}} of Greater Germany.

* Heavily used in ''Mundo Ultimate News Cp''. This is justified, as Icetown was built as a city entirely planned and executed by huge 3D printers in civil construction, like Brasília, this makes the futuristic architecture of the city have identical and standardized buildings, such as Smartowers, smart skyscrappers which distributes wireless internet, opto-electric energy, and also captures and stores extra lightning energy whenever a storm approaches.

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In speculative fiction, the architecture of alien species will often be oddly uniform across the board, with no variations owing to different styles being in fashion at different times, local environment or available materials. Might also apply to futuristic human cultures: it is rare to see a future city with architecture from different periods side by side, despite this being the norm in real life. Of course, while real-life housing developments are uniform in style and age, one does not usually build entire cities from scratch like this. One notable exception is the city of Brasília, which was built quickly in a uniform Modernist style to be a new showcase capital for UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} (as were UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Canberra]] and, even earlier, St. Petersburg and Constantinople) and has been criticized for its bland and antiseptic appearance (as the others named [[TrueArtIsAncient had been when]] ''[[TrueArtIsAncient their]]'' [[TrueArtIsAncient prevailing architecture was dated but not yet antique]]).

Named for the tendency of such settings to be filmed in set-piece futuristic towns [[CaliforniaDoubling like Brasília]].

** [[Earthdome https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/babylon5/images/8/81/B5_Earthdome_01.png]], the seat of government for the Earth Alliance, gives off this vibe.

* There are indications this is the case with Minbari cities in Series/{{Babylon 5}}. The ones we see are very uniformly the Crystal Spires style, and Delenn once compared Minbari cities, which don't change for a thousand years at a time, to her going away for a week and coming back to find major parts of the station reconfigured in looks and function.

* [[ProudScholarRace The Planet Vulcan]], quite logically, in the ''Film/StarTrek'' reboot.

* It's possible to avert this or play this straight in ''{{Spore}}'', since you can choose similar buildings for every colony, or have each planet with its own unique style.