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Linear City Research

The linear city design was first developed in the 19th century as an urban plan consisting of a series of parallel and functionally specialized sectors running parallel to a river or transportation line. Key sectors included areas for rail, industry, residences, parks, and agriculture. The Soviet planner Milyutin promoted linear cities in the 1920s as an efficient way to house large populations along transportation corridors. Benefits included lower costs for infrastructure and isolation of industries from homes while connecting them to resources and workers. Volgograd, Russia is cited as a classic example of a linear city implemented to address housing and development challenges.

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Linear City Research

The linear city design was first developed in the 19th century as an urban plan consisting of a series of parallel and functionally specialized sectors running parallel to a river or transportation line. Key sectors included areas for rail, industry, residences, parks, and agriculture. The Soviet planner Milyutin promoted linear cities in the 1920s as an efficient way to house large populations along transportation corridors. Benefits included lower costs for infrastructure and isolation of industries from homes while connecting them to resources and workers. Volgograd, Russia is cited as a classic example of a linear city implemented to address housing and development challenges.

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Linear city

Concept

The linear city design was first developed by Arturo Soria y Mata in Madrid, Spain during the
19th century, but was promoted by the Soviet planner Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin in the late
1920s. The linear city was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation. The city would
consist of a series of functionally specialized parallel sectors. Generally, the city would run
parallel to a river and be built so that the dominant wind would blow from the residential areas to
the industrial strip. The sectors of a linear city would be:

 A purely segregated zone for railway lines


 A zone of production and communal enterprises, with related scientific, technical and
educational institutions
 A residential zone, including a band of social institutions, a band of residential buildings
and a “children’s band”
 A park zones
 An agricultural zone with gardens and state-run farms

This solution is the Linear City built in height and linearly. Architectural variations are added to
modules set up in half-landings. Three transportation systems are inserted in three underground
levels: they are superposed one on the other and connected. By being linear, this network is
simpler and more efficient and at the same time, the city is located next to the countryside.

Each dwelling has a large private terrace and has a view that only a national park can offer. It
has an arrangement, a surface or a distinct configuration while sharing a larger terrace where a
swimming pool, a sauna, a small park and a playground for children could be found. Each floor
has facilities such as mailboxes, fire stations, workshops, storage places, vending machines,
separate garbage drops to facilitate recycling (paper, glass, metal, etc.).
Strength

 Social

By providing an effective transportation system, we avoid buying automobiles and oil which
contributes to reduce negative commercial balances. In addition, by stopping buying cars, we
greatly reduced the cost of living of every citizen. The consumption of gasoline, reduced to
almost nothing, would eliminate global warming as well as preserving this limited resource. The
linearity of the city helps to reduce the cost of a multitude of goods and services: the roads and
their maintenance, the aqueduct and sewage networks, (gas, electricity, cable, telephone, mail,
etc.) the protection and security systems, etc.

 Industrial factors

A consortium industrial activity, along the path of the public transportation, which would isolate
industries from the residential areas but who will connect them quickly to markets and workers
needed for their operation. The consolidation of the industrial activities, both in height than land,
could eliminate the pollution problems by linking industries to common services (filter for
chimneys and recycling of waste, water purification system, specialized services, quick access
during disasters, etc.). Furthermore, the proximity of industries would reduce their transportation
costs, by having easier access to their suppliers. The consolidation would be to think in terms of
the interrelationships between them, existing technologies, and relevant criteria.
Impact on today

A classic example of the linear city is Volgograd, one of the largest cities-centres in the South of
Russia, which is mentioned in all the world’s publications on linear development planning
structures. Linear City brings an interesting and realistic solution to problems that our society
must address. Gradually, our cities will be replaced by others that should be more suitable for
the present and future needs of humanity. Certain countries must build new housing right now to
answer those needs. Having a private house for each of eight billion of people cannot be
supported by the earth. If we do not want to leave those urgent problems to the future
generations but a better world, a project such as the Linear City must be started as soon as
possible. There is always a first step and it must not be forgotten that 10 billion of people will
have to be housed as best as possible on a planet governed by very stringent ecological laws.

References

 https://www.google.com/url?
sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linearcity.ca/&ved=2ahUKEwjtl8initHxAhUxyjg
GHYo1Bs4QFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0kvHhk1UbGoB5aeSxvQujS&cshid=162566
5610560
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_city#:~:text=The%20linear%20city%20was
%20an,areas%20to%20the%20industrial%20strip.
 http://www.citymayors.com/development/linear-cities.html
 https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/10141/beyond-the-game-visions-of-
volgograd-soviet-utopias

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