The linear city is a city that in the time it’s grown along a terrestrial communication artery for commercial and trasportation motivation.
It has a lengthened and narrow form and it proceeds along a central axes that it’s an infrastructure of trasportation. It’s born and was developed across a river or a maritime artery or across an infrastructural artery as railways or roads.
Its main characteristic is the linearity or rather growing in linear way and being lengthened and narrow.
Soria y Mata, a spanish architect of nineteenth century, theorized this city with linear topology. He proposed the “Ciudad Lineal”, an settlement of definite width with a central axes of indefinite length.
In reality there are many historical cities so, that they proceed along a road or a river or a maritime artery, but in the time the urbanization has caused the lost of the distinguishing feature of linearity.
To can conserve this characteristic the cities have to continue being linear also in the next development to the birth.
The road layouts therefore proceed along an artery or intersect a communication artery, or if you prefer the urban conglomerate extend as an herring-bone from infrastructural axes or as a backbone.
The most known city that it proceeds along a maritime communication artery of which we can still see the linear topology is certainly Genoa.
It’s known for the motivation that it proceeds along the homonymous gulf and in the time it’s continued to develop along the gulf, forced from mountains to its back.
One city that it proceeds along a communication arterial road is La Chaux de Fonds in Switzerland.
Cities known for proceed along communication arterial rivers are Berna in Switzerland and Volgograd in Russia.
Also in China we have linear city as Fengcheng (Yichun, Jiangxi), developed along a river and built in the last years on the sustainability and bioclimatic.
Another linear city in China is Yanjin (Zhaotong, Yunnan) built on the bed of Guan River in a canyon between Wumeng Mountains known as the most narrow city of the world.
In information technology there is a parallelism with linear net, the structure or the topology are alike a linear city and follow an unique directress.







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