A PRESENTATION BY R GAUTHAM

LINEAR CITY
 What is linear city?

The linear city was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation proposed by Arturo Soria y Mata in
1882. 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.
 Sectors of
linear city

#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 zone,
#an agricultural zone with gardens and state-run farms
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.
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. Milyutin justified
placing production enterprises and schools in
the same band with Engels' statement that
"education and labour will be united".
Ernst May, a famous German functionalist
architect, formulated his initial plan
for Magnitogorsk, a new city in the Soviet
Union, primarily following the model that he
had established with
his Frankfurt settlements: identical,
equidistant five-story communal apartment
buildings and an extensive network of dining
halls and other public services.
 Idea of linear city

Arturo Soria y Maatas idea of the Linear City replaced the traditional idea of the city as a
centre and a periphery with the idea of constructing linear sections of infrastructure
roads railways gas water etc. along an optimal line and then attaching the other
components of the city along the lengths of this line
The advantage of this linearity is to make efficient the public transportation,
since it eliminates the multiple connections of the existing systems.
Three basements receive three systems of public transportation
juxtaposed and interconnected (Metro, train, TGV). We must clearly
understand that the project of the Linear City is only a continuation of
buildings of about 340 units connected to each other and the project may
stop and restart when new needs arise. So at first, no need to remake the
city completely, this can only be only one attractive building. With time
other properties will be added in order to become a neighborhood, a
village, and eventually a new city.
 IMPROVING THE SAFETY

The links between buildings would make high buildings more easily evacuated during fire,
both horizontally and vertically. The integrated fire system to a incombustible
construction would reduce the damage and the loss of life caused by the fires. A
combined module monitoring center with the use of cameras will put all public areas
under surveillance and fast arrival of help. Subterranean lanes reserved to certain
vehicles would allow quick access for fire fighters, ambulances and policemen. The
public transport system would make of car accidents thing of the past.