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UGREEN produces content about sustainability in construction and helps professionals and companies put it into practice. Below you will find everything about our consulting services, events, and courses. EVENTS: On May 15th, in Curitiba, UGREEN will hold "Who Will Build a Different Brazil?" Secure your spot: https://ugreen.com.br/evento2026 CONSULTING SERVICES: Brand Consulting: https://www.ugreen.com.br/marcas Sustainable Construction Consulting: https://www.ugreen.com.br/construcoes COURSES: Regenerative Architecture: https://go.ugreen.com.br/curso-regene... Low-Impact Material Specification: https://go.ugreen.com.br/curso-materiais Sustainable Retrofit: https://go.ugreen.com.br/curso-retrofit Energy, Thermal and Lighting Simulation for Buildings: https://go.ugreen.com.br/simulacao All UGREEN courses in a single access: https://go.ugreen.com.br/pass SPONSORSHIPS: Want to sponsor the UGREEN channel or promote a sustainable product or brand? https://go.ugreen.com.br/marca FREE RESOURCES: Free News Broadcast List: https://go.ugreen.com.br/transmissao Weekly Newsletter: https://news.ugreen.com.br Follow us on Instagram for exclusive content:   / ugreen_br   In this video, we analyze how the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985) used architecture, urban planning, and infrastructure as central instruments of power, social control, and economic reorganization of the territory. From a historical materialist perspective, the video explains how concrete, technocratic planning, and large public works structured a segregating urban model that still defines Brazilian cities. The content addresses the role of the National Housing Bank (BNH), the FGTS (Workers' Severance Indemnity Fund), and SERFHAU (Municipal Housing and Urban Development Service) in the mass production of peripheral housing, the financialization of urban policy, and the horizontal expansion of cities. It shows how housing policy was designed to contain social conflicts, boost the construction industry, and guarantee capital flow to large construction companies. The video also analyzes major infrastructure projects of the period, such as the Rio-Niterói Bridge and the Trans-Amazonian Highway, explaining their geopolitical, economic, and symbolic function within the "Greater Brazil" project. The environmental, social, and urban impacts of these interventions are discussed, including deforestation, precarious urbanization, and violence against traditional populations. In metropolitan areas, the content examines the slum removal policies in Rio de Janeiro (CHISAM) and road interventions in São Paulo, such as the Minhocão elevated highway, highlighting the use of urban planning as a tool for social control, real estate appreciation, and indirect repression. The video pays special attention to the contradiction between the authoritarian regime and the adoption of modern architecture and Paulista brutalism as the official aesthetic of the state. Cases such as the Brazilian Pavilion at Expo Osaka 1970, the Headquarters of the II Army, and the Serra Dourada Stadium are analyzed, showing how exposed concrete was appropriated as a symbol of authority, permanence, and technical power. Another central theme is the consolidation of the industrial-contractor complex, with companies such as Odebrecht, Camargo Corrêa, Andrade Gutierrez, and Mendes Júnior, and its structural relationship with the authoritarian state, the billion-dollar contracts, and the internationalization of Brazilian engineering. Finally, the video addresses the repression of critical thinking in universities, the emergence of the New Architecture critique, and Sérgio Ferro's contributions to understanding the construction site as a space for the exploitation of labor. This is a video about how the dictatorship physically shaped modern Brazil, leaving an urban legacy marked by segregation, dependence on the automobile, concentration of capital, and territorial inequality.