To say that Brasília was “planted” in the Brazilian highlands means ___.

Answer 1

Built.

Brasília is a high-modern, planned city. It was built from virtually nothing. Many developing nations did this as a way to make a new capital that was more centrally oriented, and as a way of making a clean break from a colonial or a believed-to-be "backwards" past. Pakistan's Islamabad is like this, as is Myanmar's Naypyidaw. Brasília is interesting in that it used much of the high-modern architecture influenced by people like Le Corbusier, architecture that was supposed to transform the way that we live and work. For that reason, when Brasília was built, for it to be something really new, it had to be built atop no earlier foundations.