Just a few decades ago, Goiás was a decrepit backwater. The land was concentrated into a handful of hopelessly inefficient Latifúndios, there were scarcely even dirt paths to connect it to the rest of Brazil, and no industry was present beside the cottage variety. But in 1932, Vargas launched his 'March to the West', promising to bring modernity to the deep interior. The core of this plan was Goiânia: A new capital for Goiás wherein public parks would constitute a third of space. Almost immediately after its 1937 inauguration, Goiânia became a hub for agribusiness surpassing its designers' most optimistic predictions. It tripled in population from 1950 to 1960, in part bolstered by the construction of Brasília. Today Goiânia-made fertilizer, farm equipment, and vegetable oil feeds the breadbasket which in turn feeds a nation.