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    Arturo Soria Y Mata was a pioneering Spanish urban planner from the 19th century known for developing the concept of the linear city. He proposed that cities should be built as elongated formations along transportation routes like rivers, with industrial areas separated from residential zones. His vision was of cities connected by a series of linear towns, with land in between used for agriculture. The linear city model segmented areas for railways, production, residences, parks, and farming to control urban sprawl as cities expanded in length rather than width over time.

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    Arturo Soria Y Mata was a pioneering Spanish urban planner from the 19th century known for developing the concept of the linear city. He proposed that cities should be built as elongated formations along transportation routes like rivers, with industrial areas separated from residential zones. His vision was of cities connected by a series of linear towns, with land in between used for agriculture. The linear city model segmented areas for railways, production, residences, parks, and farming to control urban sprawl as cities expanded in length rather than width over time.

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    Urban Planning

    Chapter-4
    Pioneers in planning theories;
    Arturo Soria Y Mata (1844 to 1920)
    Background:
    Arturo Soria Y Mata was an internationally important Spanish urban planner whose work remains
    highly inspirational today. He is most well known for his concept of the Linear City. He studied the
    civil engineer career, but he didn't finish it.
    Concept of Linear city
    The continuing expansion of cities at the periphery the urban sprawl has pushed the country side
    further from the urban population. To overcome this Soriya Y Mata in 1882 profounded the theory
    of Linear City-- La Cludael Linear. It was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation. The city
    would run parallel to a river and be built so that dominant wind would blow from the residential
    areas to industrial strips.
    He based his proposals on the principle that transport route should determine the city design and
    that the city should be designed in advance of development. The form he proposed was a wide and
    nearly straight spine road down, the centre of which runs railways, access to development was
    obtained by straight roads meeting the spine road at right angles. Ultimately Mata envisioned the
    connection of existing cities by series of linear towns the land within the triangle so formed to be
    used for agriculture of Industries.

    . The sectors of a linear city would be:

    1. a purely segregated zone for railway lines,


    2. a zone of production and communal enterprises, with related scientific, technical and
    educational institutions, ,
    3. a residential zone, including a band of social institutions, a band of residential buildings and a
    "children's band",
    4. a park zone, and
    5. an agricultural zone with gardens and state-run farms (in the Soviet Union).
    As the city expanded, additional sectors would be added to the end of each band, so that the city
    would become ever longer, without growing wider. It has both advantages and disadvantages
    depending upon the size of the city.

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    Picture showing the concepts of Linear City by Soriya Mata (Ref ; Google Images)

    Books & References:

    1) Urban Pattern by Arthur B Gallion


    2) Text book of Town Planning by Abir Bandopadhyay
    3) Urban Planning Theory & Practice by M Pratap Rao
    4) Human Settlements; a planning guide to beginners by Dr K R Thooyavan.
    5) Wikipedia Printed by BoltPDF (c) NCH Software. Free for non-commercial use only.

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