Hubert Donat Alfred Agache (24 February 1875 – 4 May 1959) was a French architect and urbanist known for his work in Brazil. Agache was born in

Tours Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabita ...

to Auguste and Catherine Agache. He studied at the

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in Paris under Victor Laloux. He formally planned the

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ian cities of

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Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, ; , ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian Federative units of Brazil, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, 11th-most p ...

and

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in the 1940s and 1950s, supported by the Estado Novo regime in

. And in Porto Alegre his plans for the Redenção Park were realised to host the Farroupilha Revolution centennial fair. While his plans were often too expensive to be completed, they formed the basis of more practical plans, and the affordable parts of his plan were followed for several decades, although in Curitiba the so-called Agache Plan was retired and then superseded by later urban planning efforts beginning in the 1960s. Agache submitted designs for

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in the Federal Capital City design competition, and placed third. Agache also co-founded the French Society for Urban Studies. He was made a ''Chevalier'' of the Legion of Honor in 1935 and died in 1959.

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* * 1875 births 1934 deaths People from Tours, France French urban planners Urban designers 20th-century French architects École des Beaux-Arts alumni Knights of the Legion of Honour French expatriates in Brazil {{France-architect-stub

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