Gotta admit, I like the idea of a linear city. Let’s make one along an Amtrak corridor.
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Well many cities are long that way. This proposal is really skinny... everything 5 minutes walk away from the line. Bombay is more like 1:4 aspect ratio, this would be like 1:1000.
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Henry Ford already tried it. Didn’t work, but then a bunch of good music was produced there, so, there’s that.
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DNA does so much work to avoid behaving single dimensionally that I feel like a linear city would lose all of the benefits of citydom.
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The first and original one, La Ciudad Lineal of Arturo Soria, in Madrid since 1894 (legadoarturosoria.es/la-ciudad-line)...






