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    The document summarizes Arturo Soria y Mata's concept of the linear city from the late 19th century. Soria proposed expanding Madrid in a linear fashion along transportation lines to address issues of overpopulation, transportation, and sanitation. His plan involved residential and industrial areas separated by green spaces and arranged parallel to transport lines. Though the initial linear city project outside Madrid was begun, changing economic conditions prevented its full realization. The concept aimed to control urban growth while integrating cities with nature.

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    The document summarizes Arturo Soria y Mata's concept of the linear city from the late 19th century. Soria proposed expanding Madrid in a linear fashion along transportation lines to address issues of overpopulation, transportation, and sanitation. His plan involved residential and industrial areas separated by green spaces and arranged parallel to transport lines. Though the initial linear city project outside Madrid was begun, changing economic conditions prevented its full realization. The concept aimed to control urban growth while integrating cities with nature.

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    The document summarizes Arturo Soria y Mata's concept of the linear city from the late 19th century. Soria proposed expanding Madrid in a linear fashion along transportation lines to address issues of overpopulation, transportation, and sanitation. His plan involved residential and industrial areas separated by green spaces and arranged parallel to transport lines. Though the initial linear city project outside Madrid was begun, changing economic conditions prevented its full realization. The concept aimed to control urban growth while integrating cities with nature.

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    The document summarizes Arturo Soria y Mata's concept of the linear city from the late 19th century. Soria proposed expanding Madrid in a linear fashion along transportation lines to address issues of overpopulation, transportation, and sanitation. His plan involved residential and industrial areas separated by green spaces and arranged parallel to transport lines. Though the initial linear city project outside Madrid was begun, changing economic conditions prevented its full realization. The concept aimed to control urban growth while integrating cities with nature.

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    Arturo Soria proposed the linear city concept as a way to control urban sprawl and connect cities in a rational way through infrastructure like transportation corridors. The linear city would expand the city in a linear fashion along transportation lines.

    Arturo Soria was trying to solve problems that Madrid faced at the time like overpopulation, transportation issues, and poor sanitary conditions through his linear city concept.

    The different sectors proposed in a linear city included zones for rail lines, industry, green spaces, residences, parks, and agriculture.

    S O R I YA Y M ATA

    The Linear City Concept


    ARTURO SORIA-Y-MATA
    (1844-1920)
    Concept: Linear City
    • Invented Urban Telephone Networks Of A Subway
    System For Madrid.
    • Established A Magazine On Urbanism Called "La Ciudad
    Lineal.”
    • First Linear City Around Madrid To Fruition Intended To
    Be 48 Kilometres Long, Ringing The City, With A 7
    Kilometre Radial Connection.
    • Soria's Linear City Creates The Infrastructure For A
    Controlled Process Of Expansion That Joins One
    Growing City To The Next In A Rational Way, Instead Of
    Letting Them Both Sprawl.
    2
    THE LINEAR CITY
    • Arturo Soria´s aim was to solve some of the
    problems that Madrid had at that time:
    transport, overpopulation and sanitary
    conditions.

    • The linear city was a proposal made by


    Arturio Soria at the end of the 19th century,
    to turn Madrid into a more human city , a
    city which was closer to nature.
    • Expand the city along the spine of transport.
    The Linear City Movement
    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.
    Ciudad Lineal de Madrid by Soria y Mata
    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 Green Belt Or Buffer Zone With Major Highway
    • A Residential Zone, Including A Band Of Social
    Institutions, A Band Of Residential Buildings And A
    "Children's Band“
    • A Park Zone, And 6. An Agricultural Zone With Gardens
    And State-run Farms (Sovkhozy In The Soviet Union).
    Tange’s Tokyo Bay project
    There were two different theories to solve the problems caused
    by the industrial revolution.
    • Naturistic theories. The houses would
    have a garden and an orchard.

    Hygienist theories:
    their objective was to improve the
    sanitary conditions of the city.
    Proposals:
    - To build wider streets.
    - To build detached or semidetached
    houses.
    • The most important objective was to combine nature and city.

    • The Linear City concept is a conscious


    form of urban development with housing
    and industry growing along the highway
    between existing cities and contained by
    the continuous open space of the rural
    countryside.
    • The final project was a linear city
    surrounded by nature, and with a
    central area for services.

    The New Houses


    • The new houses were bigger and had a garden.
    There was also a vegetable garden or a space
    for working the land.
    New houses for
    working people

    Old houses
    Houses In The Linear City

    Indoor gardens The hall

    A middle-class house

    The bathroom The living room


    Types Of Houses

    - Compañía - Prototipos de casas de la ciudad lineal


    Madrileña de Arturo Soria let the architects free to
    Urbanización build different models of houses in order
    was the to avoid monotony.
    company in
    charge of the
    project.
    SERVICES It also had space for vegetable
    gardens and for groceries
    • The new city had a tram.

    School Sport facilities

    For leisure and


    for cultural and
    sport activities.
    Theatre Casino
    THE PROJECT FAILS
    • After the death of Arturo Soria, C.M.U. went
    through a period of economical crisis. Due to
    this, the original idea was changed.
    The Linear City Today

     The demographic boom of Madrid,


    the rise of prices and the
    proximity of the linear city to the
    city centre put an end to the
    project.

    The linear city ,built in


    the northeast of Madrid
    Advantages Disadvantages
    • High • Very Sensitive To
    Accessibility Blockage Requires
    • Adaptability To Control Of Growth
    Linear Growth • Lacks Focus
    • Useful Along • The Choice Of
    The Limited Connection Or Of
    Edge. Direction Of Movement
    Are Much Less.
    THANK YOU

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